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...decisive chords, the movement was set. The two played distinctively, yet cooperatively, Chang driving and assertive, and Kogan mature and alert. The second movement, Andante con Variazioni, is a musical puzzle of Theme and Variations. The movement is long, the tempo is slower, and the variations get a little tedious, so more concentration is needed on the performers' part to keep projecting a mood and to keep the audience's attention. Excitement resumed in the third movement, Finale: Presto. Here it was clear that Chang was leading a race in which Kogan kept up admirably...
...great writer. Lytton Strachey anticipated Blotner's contribution to this genre more than fifty years ago when he remarked on "those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead...with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design...
Outsiders might imagine that the work is tedious. Nonsense, says Lateiner, who, after 45 years, still finds the chase for facts "very exciting." Some of the most interesting challenges are the handful of queries that cannot be answered quickly. Lateiner spent half a day in 1961 discovering that the line "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan," quoted by President Kennedy, comes from the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's Foreign Minister. Only in 1968 did Bartlett's Familiar Quotations get around to listing...
Most pro football coaches go through a similar process. None is more exacting than Chief Mechanic and Perfectionist Shula, who is intent upon analyzing every piece of the smoothest-running machine in the game. "The work is tedious," he said in a recent interview with TIME Contributing Editor Philip Taubman. "But if we didn't do it, we could very well start losing games. I demand total involvement from my players, and they can expect the same from me during the season...
...snippets of sound. In any case it seems graceless to be anything but grateful for what amounts to a collage education (or reeducation) in film history. In the good old, bad old days, studios were often criticized for trying to imitate one another's successes, thereby creating tedious cycles. This time, however, the competition should be encouraged to follow Warner Brothers' lead. MGM, come on! Paramount, let's hear from you! Richard Schickel