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Word: tediously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience either. We long for anecdote, gasping with renewed interest when a crumb of plot is revealed. Wilson may have done this intentionally is make us feel how petty Giles Fox's life is. If so, the idea fails, because the result is overblown in its melodrama and moreover-tedious to read...

Author: By Elisheva Urbas, | Title: Clever Failure | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

...Gentle man, has banished darkness from his remake and told memory to take a hike. He works in a relentlessly sun-drenched present, and his central figures (Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and James Woods) are used as symbols, not of the past's sweet cheats but of tedious corruption and the lost paradise of Los Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady, here doing a supporting role) and Richard Widmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Hotels, Hoods and a Mermaid | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...process is slow and tedious, and this year the Review has fallen two months behind schedule--it just finished its January issue Nevertheless, it is still several steps ahead of the rival New Haven publication, from courtrooms and law offices around the nation, last years's Yale Law Journal executives are now struggling to complete the final four issues of their 1982 83 volume...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Hallowed Be Its Name | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

NORMAN REVEALS a bewildering predilection for nursery rhymes in Traveler-this theme is carried over to Heidi Landesman's set, which features a gingerbread house and a fanciful Mother Goose garden. Sam quotes and analyzes nursery rhymes at great length, and the result is a tedious and heavy-handed string of tired metaphors describing the aforementioned Big Concepts. The funny one-liners which permeate the play also lose their effect after two repetitive hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Floundering In The Dark | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

After sitting for six days under the eyes of U.S. Army guards, the Cuban construction workers were permitted to move to a more habitable tent city they had erected near the airstrip. All of the captured Cubans were sent there as the tedious process of interviewing each man continued. The U.S. interrogators wanted to determine just how many were professional soldiers, trained reservists, ordinary workers or various combinations of all three. Many of the prisoners looked too old, paunchy or otherwise unfit to be soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now to Make It Work | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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