Word: tedious
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...ticked off. In a scathing op-ed showcased in Tuesday's New York Times, the Federal Communications Commission chair rails against Fox and NBC's decision not to broadcast the first presidential debates. While CBS and ABC will show the 90-minute Bush-Gore slugfest in all its (potentially tedious) glory, the naughtier networks have bowed to the allure of ratings, offering a premiere of James Cameron's slinky "Dark Angel" and the debut game of the baseball playoffs...
...possible to take songs from a CD and "rip," or convert them into MP3 files, usually in violation of copyright. But even in the mid-'90s, when faster computers and high-bandwidth connections to the Internet made it possible to seek and find MP3 files, ripping CDs was a tedious process...
...schmaltz just so you can enjoy a couple of interesting moments that might be memorable and even historic. Like the Oscars, the ceremony can drag on and on: parading 10,000 athletes from 199 countries, Albania through Zimbabwe, makes for a long evening. And that spectacle can become as tedious as actors thanking their agents, except that the athletes dress more exotically...
...this celebrated comedy is as fresh in the Roundabout Theatre's Broadway revival as it was in 1939, when it opened. Sadly, despite an acidly amusing star turn by Nathan Lane, the story of a curmudgeonly radio commentator forced to spend two weeks with an Ohio family now seems tedious and self-indulgent. There's satiric potential in a middle-American family's encounter with celebrity boorishness, but we get too little feeling for the family and way too much for the hammy show-biz types who troop on and off the stage. For almost three hours...
...outsize ego (yes, one of the samples he is analyzing is rumored to contain his own DNA) or his penchant for doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science but, as pioneer DNA mapper James Watson sneered, tedious assembly-line labor on machines that "could be run by monkeys" (yes, most of Celera's analysis was done by robot gene sequencers and high-speed computers...