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...This is a unique instance in the history of arms control," said Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill last week. Perhaps so, but the occasion was also a murky one. After more than 40 hours of amendment-filled debate spread over seven tedious weeks, the House finally voted on its contentious call for a nuclear arms freeze by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a measure opposed by the Reagan Administration. The tally on the nonbinding resolution: 278 in favor, 149 against. Confusingly enough, both pro-and anti-freeze legislators claimed victory...
...could overwhelm a roomful of enemies. How could anyone not wish this impish iconoclast happiness, prosperity, long life, enough success to make him happy and enough failure to keep him on his toes? But mellowness? Hold that for a while, spare him and the rest of the world such tedious peace. Says Mailer: "I've never been impressed by mellowing. Usually the people who have mellowed always have just a touch of sadness, because maybe they shouldn't have survived. You just can't sit there and say, 'I'm in the prime of life...
...plays, which contain almost no sustained movement on stage. When Waiting for Godot was first produced thirty years ago, reviewers called it boring and meaningless. Today, it is a staple in most dramatic repertories; it remains to be seen whether these two pieces of 1976 and 1981--though tedious and difficult--will attain equal popularity. Certainly an open mind is essential for any viewer of these plays, with or without any familiarity with Beckett's other work...
...defending baseball as the most watchable sport. If that was the only issue determining the enjoy ability of different sports, then I wouldn't have written this article. The fast-paced, consistently entertaining action of basketball and tennis makes the events on the baseball diamond seem tedious at best...
Bergvall will spend the next two-and-a-half hours analyzing and cataloguing the inflections of certain Russian sentences--at the rate of about two or three sentences an hour. The tedious job is the "bit work" necessary for the development of a broader theory of the principles of spoken Russian, she explains. "It's not going to set the world on fire, but it's important to linguists," Bergvall adds...