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...Chem 10 lectures were abysmal," Levy says. "Lab reports were really tedious and not very creative...
...America, Heathers or another such film which is always rented. So, each week in this space, we will offer you some fine films which tend to be overlooked by the average video renter. Hopefully, you will both like the movies and, above all, avoid the obvious and the tedious...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give Ds. Consider C- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 blue books to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
Admittedly, the prospect of another semester of monumental idiocy is appealing. But not appealing enough to slog through the entire tedious business of a campus convulsion. With the time saved, we could rent a movie; possibly, but not definitely, Mississippi Burning...
...Side Story through Applause and Annie to Miss Saigon, cast with three Tony Award winners and designed by two more, Nick & Nora should have absolutely everything going for it. But the show that opens on Broadway this week is a crashing bore -- cranky and arbitrary as a love story, tedious and pointless as a murder mystery, ham-handed as comedy, clubfooted as dance, at best wanly pleasant as music. A few scenes work, some quite well. The final 10 minutes achieve a truth and simplicity underscoring the barren brittleness of what has gone before. But ultimately the show fails...