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...work has admittedly had its detractors. Pepys attended three productions and termed it "a silly play" and "one of the weakest plays that ever I saw." And one of Britain's finest reviewers, Max Beerbohm, branded it "hackwork" and found it "perfunctory and formless," "tedious and frigid." For my money, it's the supreme work of its kind. And Shakespeare, having at last approached perfection, never returned to the genre again, but proceeded to deeper and darker matters...
...immortal lines, the great bard himself, dissolve and leave but the plot behind. Now girl-in-boy's-clothing palls, now which-twin-is-which proves yawningly wearisome. Many of the jokes are far past saving and a good bit of the chop logic word play is tedious word work. In Director William's conception of the comedy, the prankishness and the poetry are divorced instead of being mated...
Unfortunately, the movie's good intentions are undone by a script that gets bogged down in a needlessly overcomplex plot. What is good in the film is constantly lost in a tedious exposition. It is as if the movie's makers- including Lancaster, who functions as co-director - never recognized that what was truly worthwhile in their work was back ground, atmosphere and the social di agram of a town...
...drama, the New York Drama Critics' Award, and the Tony. Unfortunately, the cast of the touring company playing now in Boston can't do justice to the brilliant tragi-comedy of Miller's play. The tense moments of the play slip by with long pauses that are more tedious than suspenseful and the intensity of the actors' emotional outbursts is rarely in keeping with the dramatic mood that has been created on the stage. Working together, the five actors fail to create that subtly woven web of tension and humor, love and hate, that should have riveted our attention...
...response, White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt spent four weeks locating the tapes in question on six-hour reels stored in the Executive Office Building, isolating segments that corresponded to the subpoenaed conversations and transcribing them by hand. The tapes were reportedly sometimes almost inaudible, requiring hours of tedious replaying to decipher the conversations and identities of the speakers. Said one associate: "Fred's ears have fallen beneath his collar at this point." After studying each of the transcripts and consulting with St. Clair, Buzhardt turned them over to Nixon. Aides assumed that the President, in reviewing the transcripts...