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...bravado. In many ways “Atonement” promises to harken back to the great literary adaptations of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Ismail Merchant and James Ivory adapted several classic British novels to the big screen. While the worse of these ended up being tedious opulent excess, the best, like 1992’s “Howard’s End” or 1985’s “A Room with a View,” captured the ambiance of the novel with rich historical detail and powerhouse acting. It remains...
...Still, most of the recordings capture the normal, sometimes tedious chatter of young men. They drink coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and debate the merits of Ford vs. Chevy; they drink coffee and talk about their dismay over the war in Iraq; they drink coffee and talk about fishing. They play paintball and fire guns at snowballs lofted into the air. "I like to joke with these guys that they're like Albanian rednecks," says Michael Riley, attorney for Shain. There is something about the men's behavior that seems like that of kids at play. "It's like they were...
...certainly has an appeal to it, but it can get very tedious when you’re going from host family to host family to hotels to long bus rides, and all the stuff in between,” he says. “I think it’s one of those things where if you’re making progress, it stays fun. If you start to stagnate, it can get very stale in a hurry...
...sports, or rather bite my lip and hope for a quick Sox victory so as to get the whole damn thing over with. I was leaning towards the latter; the exquisite masochism of Boston sports fans, born out of centuries of Irish-Catholic resentment and sexual privation was getting tedious; and besides, I had long ago come to the realization that they enjoyed their misery even more than...
Kunqu, China's oldest known operatic form, enjoyed its peak of popularity in the 18th century, when the best performers were adored by hundreds of thousands of fans. But by the 1940s there were virtually no dedicated Kunqu theaters left. With its archaic lyrics, sluggish melodies and tedious narratives, the 600-year-old genre - a precursor to the better known Peking opera - was all but dead and understandably so. The Peony Pavilion, one of the most famous Kunqu works, consists of 55 scenes, and a performance can last more than 20 hours. Witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry...