Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French presidential campaign had begun to resemble a tedious exercise in shadowboxing and issue ducking. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing remained in lofty seclusion behind the ornate iron gates of the Elysée Palace. Socialist Candidate Francois Mitterrand slipped away for tours to the U.S. and China. Neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac drifted off for a week in the Caribbean. Even Communist Candidate Georges Marchais confined himself largely to preaching to the converted in party districts like Paris' working-class suburbs. Then suddenly last week, the gloves came off and the slugging began...
...entire affair, in fact, might grow a little tedious, if it weren't for Cross's wonderfully insightful eye. She captures not just the back-stabbing civility of Harvard politics, but the unique pace and style of the University and its city. Cross is best with the little touches that provide what Poe called the potent magic of verisimilitude (each character in this bookish book continually quotes and attributes in mid-sentence). Examples of the Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky...
Collective Decision Making. Traditional American corporations encourage executives to be decisive, to act forcefully and to accept the consequences. Japanese corporate decisions are reached by a tedious process of collective compromise that can sometimes involve as many as 60 to 80 individuals, each of whom holds a potential veto. The process of consensus building is slow, but once agreement is reached, no one attempts to sabotage or slow down the project...
...Love American Style" provided quick, imaginative, sometimes impossible situations; Sunday Lovers provides tedious, over-used plots. Where "Love American Style" used unusual idiosyncratic characters, Sunday Lovers employs expectable, almost banal personalities. Where "Love American Style" let us laugh at ourselves through its perceptive vision of the contemporary preoccupation with sex for its own sake, Sunday Lovers falls flat...
...lurid sunsets--seem charged with surreal power; even the pastels seem energized, and the slums are unfailingly photogenic in their squalor. The enchanting promiscuity of the landscape, the vagabond itinerancy, and the no-sweat amorality of the characters keep the narrative amiably in motion, unburdened by overt lecturing or tedious symbols. The native Cico, who might have been pressed into the boring documentary role of "yokel-from-the-primitive-hinterlands-who-learns-the-modern-world-fast-and-succeeds-in-the-city," more realistically straddles the two worlds, both awkwardly and heroically. He is the idealistic primitif, yet when the show...