Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that matter--so Nicholson simply wanders through Europe in an existential search for self-identity and the Meaning of Life, picking up a languid Maria Schneider en route. Only the film's visual beauty--Spanish landscape and Gaudi architecture shot in lush Italian style--in any way redeems this tedious monstrosity...
...mathematics, Appel and Haken's achievement may mean more than the end to a stubborn problem. Up to now, many theorists have been wary of using computers rather than simple, elegant blackboard equations to seek out basic mathematical truths; tedious chores like tracking a spacecraft, which involve no new principles, were left to the electronic brains. Now, by dramatically showing that there may be certain fundamental questions that only the high-speed electronic whizzes can answer, Appel and Haken may well have ushered in a new era of computer computation on the frontiers of higher mathematics...
Duplicating the gene's basic structure, which had been determined earlier by British researchers, was extremely tedious, trial-and-error work. Each scientist on Khorana's team was assigned to assemble 1% segments of DNA. This involved chemically linking one nucleotide to another, like beads of a necklace, until a chain ten to 12 nucleotides long had been created. Eventually the team built up 40 segments, all of them single stranded. These had to be paired to form double-stranded DNA segments that had to be connected end to end in proper sequence to duplicate the bacterial gene...
...with innocuous studies of the British monarchy's past and future. At times, the severe White House restrictions on camera placement left viewers with the suspicion that the show had been staged by Andy Warhol. Finally, PBS could obviously do nothing about the choice of a tired and tedious Bob Hope and the Captain & Tennille, slicked-up country singers, as postprandial entertainment...
...would require practice to become tedious. Christopher Porterfield