Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over again, seeking control over events otherwise relegated to the unchangeable past. Fassbinder brutally exploits the technique of flashback in scenes in which Biberkopf recalls the murder of his girlfriend. Fassbinder offers different voice-overs in each reenactment, which appears in each of the 13 segments. It gets very tedious watching the same clip no less than 14 times, and the often-worthwhile meanings contained within the voice-overs are unfortunately lost when the audience tunes out these segments of the film...
...millennium, Stephen Jay Gould has written a book for you. Questioning the Millennium tackles some of the debate before veering into the history of apocalyptic movements and day-date calculating. Gould's discussion of the millennium question proper, by far the most interesting portion of this somewhat tedious book, is the shortest chapter...
...those good intentions can be tedious, of course. Roar moves along at a distractingly languorous pace and makes you wish for the zinginess of Hercules and Xena, shows meant to be nothing more than absurd fun. Like those series, Roar has plenty of high kicks and sword fights, but its scenes feel like bad attempts at re-creating Braveheart rather than very entertaining ancient-world episodes of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It is unlikely too that Hercules, played by the Fabio-coiffed Kevin Sorbo as a guy who appears to have lost his way back from spring break, would...
Double albums in hip-hop tend to be as unnecessarily tedious as two-part sitcom episodes and director's-cut home videos. Even the late rap superstars Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. released disappointing double CDs that were heavy on gangsta attitude and light on well-crafted songs. Last week the hard-core rap group Wu-Tang Clan came out with theirs, Wu-Tang Forever (Loud/RCA). Given the fact that the group's last album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) had been lauded in hip-hop circles for its labyrinthine lyrics and creatively jagged production...
Murphy adds that the process grows even more tedious and expensive when professors have to deal with publishers unfamiliar with the concept of the sourcebook...