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...finally be over. Certainly the nation has had enough. As he faced a televised grilling last week on the scandal that destroyed his presidency, the disgraced ex-President forced viewers to suffer through most of the same old distortions and deceptions (along with some new ones) on the now tedious details of the criminal cover-up in his White House. But then, for some 25 emotional minutes at the end of the broadcast, the nation got its first-and, it could hope, last-glimpse into the anguish and genuine regrets of a once proud man admitting...
Doubtless. And perhaps if the film were made with real flak, one would feel like toying with its mystical precepts. But Director Wise cannot think of any way to stress the spooky except to drench scenes in rain, while Writer De Felitta cranks out undigested research. They are very tedious fellows...
...talking about" is simple evolution. However, Dawkins states explicitly "selfish genes are unconscious, blind, replicators" (p.215). He explains early (p. 48) that "evolution is the process by which some genes become more and others less numerous in the gene pool" and that "at times, gene language gets a bit tedious, and for brevity and vividness we shall lapse into metaphor...
...aura of political and technological complexity about this film, it still appears that Lindsay-Hogg and Enders used a butcher's knife to chop Spark's novel to pieces. Maybe Nixon should have gotten his hands on this film and erased is most tedious segments. Even if he only managed to cut out eight-and-a-half minutes, he would have saved a few souls from some of the unimpressed boredom that is this year's filmgoer's hell...
...genitals in the sink along with the dishes. But Joel Seria is the kind of literal-minded director who, when a character has to leave his car, cross a road, cut along a field and knock on the door of a house, follows him with the camera every tedious step of the way. The painter may want to be behind his subjects, but the film as a whole makes the mistake of lagging far behind the viewer's imagination...