Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading men can scale and declares his opposition to political violence on the grounds that it "reeks of spontaneity." It is the only moment in the film that one feels comes from the hearts of Director Resnais and Writer Mercer, whose distrust of the spontaneous is woven into every tedious frame of this stupefying work. Calculation is their bag, and they have calculated the life right out of a conceit that clearly was not much to begin with...
...into his book only insofar as it illuminates the poet's life. Thus, for the truly inquisitive neophyte, reading both books more or less concurrently is a highly satisfactory introduction to Cavafy's life and work. And, by juxtaposing the two studies, one is relieved of Liddell's occasionally tedious scholarly circumspection. Both authors write clearly, although Keeley gets the laurels (as Cavafy would put it) for flowing prose and consummate organization. And, for the non-Greek speaker who has lamented the dearth of any form of scholarship on one of Greece's foremost literary figures, the appearance this fall...
...cartload of interesting effects--but his electronic toys weigh him down. He is too reliant on the variety of synthesized sounds he can achieve, and neglects the compositional structure necessary to unite their disparate elements. The tunes lack definition and resolution; once the novelty wears off, they become tedious. Bowie's surrealism overwhelms you. You can sense important messages but only the dreamer can unscramble them. The few solos by traditional instruments, the guitar and sax, are flaccid and indefinite...
Refusing to give up, McDade decided during the Christmas holidays on a new approach: to look for a strange organism rather than a familiar one. It was difficult, tedious work, he recalls, "like searching for a missing contact lens on a basketball court with your eyes four inches away from the floor...
...Being an astronaut takes concentration and patience, and it can be tedious-just like football,"says O.J. Simpson, 29, who ought to know. The star running back of the Buffalo Bills has hung up his cleats for a while to play the space mate of Sam Waterston and James Brolin in Capricorn One, a movie about a manned flight to Mars. "I could never be a real astronaut and sit in that tiny capsule for days," declares the Juice. "I have too much energy." He likes acting though, and plans to try it full time when he retires from...