Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when excitement settles into a familiar routine, even the most thrilling assignment becomes just a job. The White House beat, for all its glories, is often repetitive and tedious, the equivalent of covering a fenced-off headquarters in a company town. Says Woodruff: "Access is very tightly controlled; inevitably, you are manipulated. You rarely see your sources. You wait for them to return phone calls." Last week, weary of it all after nearly six years, Woodruff gave up her coveted job to become a Washington-based reporter and interviewer for the morning news show Today...
...course of the film, this association between Mazursky and his character runs amok. The most obvious result is the film's length, an unwieldy and tedious two hours and 20 minutes. Much of the time is dominated by plodding and ponderous soliloquies by Phillip or, worse still, supposedly meaningful glances. By the film's end, as Dinah Washington croons she "will turn Manhattan into an isle of joy," and Cassavetes takes a final knowing glance at the City's skyline, one wonders what made such an ugly point of departure such a desirable destination. Mazursky seemingly knows...
...some 200 customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...
Between Metullah in northern Israel and Nabatiyah in southern Lebanon, a winding road passes through two P.L.O. minefields. The Israelis have made no attempt to clean out the mines, a tedious and risky job that they would have to take on if they stayed. The Israelis are apt to find that Lebanon itself is a political minefield that poses ever greater dangers with each passing...
...Nobody ever calls you when they're be having themselves. As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray