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...there is any flaw in Family Letters, it is that the book can be tedious; as selective as this collection is, 300 pages of correspondence inevitably contains repetition and a host of everyday trivialities. And the very selectiveness of the book itself can be problematic. With many letters missing in between the ones printed here, at times the book can be confusing in alluding to events or past comments of which we are not aware...
...unblinking images--exhaustive, exhausting, narration-free cinema-verite documentaries. The 4-hr. 8-min. Belfast lingers over daily life in a small blue-collar town: marriages, doctors' exams, factories, a read-through of Death of a Salesman. While Wiseman's vignettes can be mesmeric, they're too often simply tedious and excessive. And it smacks of self-congratulation for the public-TV gentry to do these working-class commoners the mere favor of acknowledging--as the Salesman reference suggests--that attention must be paid...
...Also known as "grunt work," this part of the job exposes just how hard traveling can be. R-dubs' shit work entails confirming restaurant hours, hotel prices and a countless number of tedious details required to maintain the series' credibility. "It's your hardest work," said Greece r-dub Mike Seid. "The majority of your job is fact-checking. I got a little tired of it towards the end. You occasionally think that these things are meaningless...
...family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care in a manner that reduces already tedious policy-wonking to "Did so," "Did not," "So's your...
...benefits of being a male nun, Durang's songs are more bizarre than his scripts, if that can be believed. Add to this a text that switches languages as quickly and gleefully as it does literary allusions, and you have what very easily could have been a confusing and tedious wreck of a play...