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...limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album is a tedious, dispiriting task not unlike sorting a backlog of junk e-mail...
...Louisville doctors, of course, knew they would probably run into a buzz saw. Not so much over the surgery. That will be tedious and exacting, requiring the joining of dozens of nerves, blood vessels, tendons, muscles and bones, but it's the sort of delicate operation that hand surgeons have been doing for years. The big question, when a borrowed hand is involved, is rejection. While new immunosuppressant drugs are improving the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants--from hearts and lungs to kidneys--a body part composed of as many different tissues as the hand poses special...
...Bulldogs treated their fans to a tedious fourth quarter in which it seemed that they were playing to keep the game close, rather than...
...idles with the addition of random, irrelevant characters. Alan Alda and Allison Janey appear in small supporting roles to fit the screen with comic relief whenever the cheese becomes unbearable. Nigel Hawthorne, a Hytner mainstay, is thrown into the movie for no apparent reason (other than to give a tedious monologue where he works in the title of the movie.) Even worse, the script is unsure of itself-the declarations of love between various sets of characters are intolerably stilted. When Wasserstein tries to create intensely emotional moments between George and his significant others, the movie degenerates entirely. (One exchange...
...good half hour I watch her negotiate the kitchen the same way a good editor works a newsroom: She offers input, answers questions and helps with the more tedious tasks. Most importantly, she takes a good hard look, at everything before it goes to press. Or, in this case, to the dining room. And more than once she does some editing--one dish is too dry, something else is too rare, and a third entree is just plain...