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Cuban planners, however, still lack expertise in plotting out the tedious details necessary for carrying through vast development schemes. And while Cuba does plant twice as many citurs trees as Israel, she soon discovers that they were planted too close together, which means that the productivity will be slightly lower...
Star and Co-Producer Stanley Baker, who saunters through the film as the master criminal replete with belted trench coat and salt-and-pepper mustache, is a man both obviously enamored of his project and absolutely blind to the faults of the beloved. With tedious attention to detail, Robbery examines every minor maneuver of the criminals, watches a handcuff screw turn 17 times before it is opened, sees every last bag of loot passed from hand to hand into waiting trucks. And after playing it taut upper lip until the last moment, the film goes soft when...
What a pair of bylines! But this account of last summer's Arab-Israeli war by Sir Winston Churchill's son and grandson only exposes the soft underbelly of the publishing world. A tedious example of quickie book-journalism, the book retells Jewish and Arab history from the Diaspora to 1967. Next, lengthy quotes from diplomatic and press dispatches trace the immediate prewar events at yawning length. The narrative of the war itself relies heavily on the turgid reports of field commanders, completely misses the sense of speed and surprise that made the Israeli victory possible, and even...
Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) unreels his film novelistically, in segments. The beginning, reminiscent of the early Guinness films, is delightfully allusive and elusive. But in the middle, Malle abruptly switches to a pictorial history of burglary as Belmondo goes through a repetitious series of tedious jobs of greater interest to criminals and cops than to ordinary citizens. The end is something else again: sympathetic character studies proving Nietzsche's dictum that the criminal is only a strong man made sick...
...over a period of several weeks by Correspondents Robin Mannock and Dan Coggin and Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress. Their sources, in the main, were captured documents, defectors from the Viet Cong ranks, captured suspects in the field, and military and civilian experts. Much of their work involved long, tedious probing into material that did not seem to mean much by itself, but which made up important pieces of the puzzle that is the Viet Cong.* The correspondents, as well as Senior Editor Richard Seamon and Writer Jason McManus working in New York, combined their efforts toward...