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...recently told her that she would sit for an interview only because she was dying to meet the former TV star. (Gates denies that motive and says she does not even own a TV set.) "Don't get me wrong," Quinn says. "Being a celebrity is not entirely tedious. I like being called to do a piece for the Atlantic. I like being interviewed by TIME. I like making money. I have returned from television to discover I have a magnified reputation that does get in the way. But I am not a failure. I am not a loser...
...will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night, an array of dials on an instrument panel will tell if he is getting the best performance out of his boat. Small, hand-held computers will zip through calculations that cost Slocum tedious hours...
...final exams draw to a close and the pomp and circumstance of graduation steps into the limelight, discussion inevitably revolves around. "What are you doing next year?" "Oh, the law school huh? No, I'm taking next year off to make the European swing." Basically, conversation gets very tedious...
Other moments in this concert are less successful Coleman's piece 'Forms and Sounds for Wind Quintet' in ten movements has high theoretic ambitions but in performance is tedious. Coleman states that it is "a combination of diatonic and atonal intervals that creates a form out of a sound and a sound out of a form in which the five instruments blend, not by coming together, but by moving in opposing directions." The theory sounds impressive but after about five minutes (and the piece lasts 25) the lack of rhythmic color or dynamic change sterilizes the composition's impact...
...tragedy is that Exley, a good writer and teacher, published Pages knowing it wasn't any good. Where Notes is a well-integrated, sensitive book, Pages is a tedious pastiche abounding with descriptions of Exley and his favorite bartender reading the morning mail--and Exley knows better...