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...Moby Dick - Rehearsed in the Space. Performances are uniformly excellent, and the only quibble is Call's choice of plays. Molière is always Molière. But all Brecht is not good Brecht, and it would take more than the Denver company to turn the overlong, tedious Chalk Circle into an exciting evening. Welles' play shows the enormous capabilities of the Space, but that is about all. It is good theater, but not good drama...
...begins Jerry Skolimowski's The Shout, a tedious, fabricated "sojourn" into the world of mental illness, the realm between fantasy and reality, and the hinterland of primitive magical heeby-jeebies. This film has been widely praised and heartily recommended for "serious moviegoers" (always beware of this one) and has won for itself a slew of awards. Its style has been praised as the cinematic equivalent of James Joyce, which it may well be, but then again, when was the last time you picked up Finnegan's Wake for a couple hours of enlightenment...
...tedious match that dragged on for four hours because of officiating controversy, the Brandeis men's fencing team upset a stronger Crimson squad, 14-13, last night at Brandeis...
...hour trip in a windowless cargo plane was a little tedious," says Scott of his journey, "but in 20 years as a TIME correspondent, few stories have proved more riveting." Since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia, Operation California agents had to arrange their mission with the Cambodian embassy in Moscow. "Bona fides was eventually established with help from the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia," Scott explains, "but a green light came only four days before we took...
Sanchez's animus stems from the puritanical morality of the ex-junkie. There is nothing so tedious as a converted man and his born-again morality...