Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then why is the sum total of Fathers considerably less biting than its component parts promise? First, Gold's immigrant-in-America story has been overworked in the past; it is almost a tedious commonplace, for example, that yet another nice Jewish girl breaks tradition and marries a goy. Second, the author sees his characters through a nostalgic mist so thick as to preclude more than a fleeting glimpse of evil. Even racketeers emerge as loving family men who take hard candies home to the kiddies...
...Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
...trouble. For that reason, while saluting the urge which produced them, I have to register objection to three attempts to make legitimate this joyfully bastard show: the self-conscious counterpoint of the "Like You Like It" reprise; the weak, semi-serious ballad, "Is It Really Me"; and the tedious choreography of Pan's Dance, which wastes the considerable talents of Director Wilson and dancer Ron Porter...
...GUERRE EST FINIE. Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima Mon Amour) explores the mind of an old-guard Spanish Civil War Communist (Yves Montand), and builds a biography that may be overly literary but is never tedious...
...Harvard Alumni Bulletin is an animal apart from the pack. It is the only alumni magazine in the country that survives on its own advertising and subscription revenue, and by financially divorcing itself from the University, the Bulletin has separated itself from the necessity of telling a tedious official story. Self-sufficiency is a luxury that lets the Bulletin be "the eyes and ears of the alumni at Harvard instead of the mouthpiece of the administration," says John T. Bethell '54, the magazine's new editor...