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While some dorm crew workers have discoveredinteresting or profitable items in the room, forothers the work has been nothing but tedious,tiring and dirty. Even the least messy jobs, likemaking beds, can be fraught with peril...
...Crocodile" Dundee II reverses the formula by sending the natural man back to nature, an idea that has the virtue of originality but can be executed only with much tedious maneuvering. For some reason Hogan and his son Brett, who co-wrote the script, have decided that their heavies should be a ring of Colombian drug dealers. They have to be manipulated to New York City in order to menace Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski), Mick's perpetually adoring girlfriend. Then an unlikely band of citizens has to be recruited to help him rescue her. Then the criminals must be lured...
Although the techniques of student activism have changed, some of the problems that plagued the movement 20 years ago have not. Many activists in the 1960s "appeared to have no stomach for hard, tedious, daily organizing, no respect for and little contact with the people in whose name they claimed to be acting," wrote Thelwell in The Village Voice last March. Some students see similar problems with activism in the 1980s...
...Israelis are devising new ways beyond curfews, roadblocks and shop closings to reassert their authority. Palestinians who wish to see relatives in detention camps can no longer arrange their visits through the Red Cross but must go through the tedious process of seeking permission from the military government. Anyone applying for a birth certificate or marriage license must prove that all government fines have been paid, while Palestinians traveling to Amman must first traverse miles of red tape...
Ironically, the fine set and acting in this play almost manage to overcome the faulty script. However, by the end of the play, Peter Barnes' preachy threehour script, a very obvious parable about the evilness of human nature, renders the play incredibly tedious and painful to watch...