Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stones' songs, one called "Wild Horses," with lines like "Wild horses couldn't drag me away/ Wild horses, we'll ride them someday," and the other a derivative "Brown Sugar." And you get lots of live performances, but frankly the cloying, infatuated photography renders even these tedious after three or four songs; the Maysles seemed to have realized this, and Shelter's nadir comes when they try to jazz up their presentation of "Love in Vain" with rapturous slow-motion andYard,' with its hallowed dormitories that once housed some of our nation's great literary, philosophic and scientific minds...
...subsequent conviction did not penetrate the military's innermost defenses. After all, Galley was hardly one of the elite of the officer corps. He was one of those thousands of peripheral soldiers of ordinary background and average intelligence who slog their way through O.C.S., enjoy a career of tedious assignments in grubby outposts and never, never rise beyond the rank of colonel...
...first round in the fight for a clean environment has been largely won in the U.S., with practically all sides-business, government and consumers-committed to taking some kind of action to control pollution. The second round promises to be longer and far more tedious. It is a vast numbers game involving specific standards of cleanliness, the time limits before they become effective and, most important, the cost of attaining them. Last week, at a hearing held by Senator Edmund Muskie's air-and-water pollution subcommittee, a few answers began to emerge to the question of "Who will...
...journalistic analogue to SDS's founding Ann Arbor statement for the people are allowed to speak for themselves, their speech and memory becoming the source of the book's authority and success. Its not always terribly exciting-the chapter on Jim, a Haight-Ashbury hippie, is made tedious by its subject's now fairly conventional opinions-but when the reporting breaks forth it does so with an energy that approximates the frenzy of good, crazy fiction. "Groovy" Hutchinson, the drifter who was murdered alongside Linda Fitzptarick, comes on like a Ken Kesey hero, a con artist who ultimately...
...unsentimentalized naturalism, and by making Balthazar the surface dramatic center, he frees himself from artificially forcing the lives of his human characters into neat dramatic confrontations. He wants to present life not as artistically ordered but life as stumbled upon-in all its formlessness. This would make for tedious watching if not for the figure of Balthazar who becomes a principle of coherence, a kind of unspeaking narrator...