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These two lawsuits were settled by one tedious, seemingly interminable trial in which the judge once asked the parties to meet outside the court-room to resolve some disputes...
Normally, watching the awarding of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film is a painful and disappointing experience. Instead of rewarding excellent or innovative films, the stolid voters usually opt for something ponderous and portentous--recall the year that the excruciatingly tedious "Pelle the Conqueror' won over "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." So it was refreshing to watch this year's Oscar go to the Spanish entry, Fernando Trueba's "Belle Epoque." Trueba's film isn't necessarily a cinematic masterpiece, something like "The Piano." But given Trueba's more modest goal of entertainment, the film succeeds quite...
...skip graceful curtsies during the finalapplause: even their highly choreographed bows atthe end have attitude. While The Joffrey Balletwas touring, "Billboards" played to consistentlysold-out audiences and standing ovations. Thiswork is certainly a highlight in their remarkablydiverse repertoire. The perpetual whistling andcheering from the crowd during the performance mayget tedious, but the audience's abundantenthusiasm reflects the excitement of the ballet
...enhancing dull lives with a homemade role- playing game a la Dungeons & Dragons. They speak pseudo Old English mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests. By the end, two of the four are certifiably mad, and the other two are silently miserable. The cause of their downfall is the very thing most people would advocate to help...
Soon after the first tremor, seismologists began trying to map out the newly revealed fault and determine how it is connected to other fissures in the region. To do this, the scientists will have to track the locations of hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and tedious process. At first it was thought that the quake might have resulted from a previously unmapped extension of the Oak Ridge Fault, which angles past the city of Ventura and into the Pacific Ocean. But as researchers fanned out through the San Fernando Valley, other theories emerged, including the possibility that the fault...