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While some tout the changes as clear steps forward, others remain more sceptical, claiming that the use of machines might tend to quantify a student's understanding of theory, scrificing traditional reliance on tedious work to produce brilliant understanding...
...hearing the tick-tick-tick of a ten-speed coming down hard on the heels. To the uninitiated, a crowd like this can be intimidating. And to an observer not possessed of a similar obsession, ceaseless talk of training techniques, water temperatures and times tends to get a little tedious...
Even if you are into this sort of Kiplingish stuff, it could get tedious it told poorly. Fortunately, Porch expertly recreates what it was like to be there, describing, for example, "large hills of rubbish that were constantly churned and sifted by packs of stray dogs and near-naked children...
White House Correspondents Laurence I. Barrett, attending his fifth summit, and Barrett Seaman, whose experience goes back to the 1978 meeting in Bonn, had to contend with what Seaman calls "the bane of all reporters covering presidential trips": pools, the often tedious arrangements in which publications rotate coverage where access is limited. "They are necessary, but they add enormously to already grueling schedules," Seaman says. "Oppressive security arrangements in Bonn also made coverage of the ceremonies quite difficult...
...based on his shrewd if unadmiring assessment of Alfred Hitchcock in The Dark Side of Genius. But Spoto's The Kindness of Strangers is merely thorough, precise and methodical. Almost perversely, it stops short of risking deep perception of the playwright or his plays: it focuses instead on a tedious hunt for the minutiae of names, addresses and trivial incidents that made their way from Williams' life into his art. Spoto's writing lacks lilt, and his themes often bog down in a glut of detail. The book's most conspicuous shortcoming is an absence of the engaging Williams voice...