Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Alan Bennett's new play, The Madness of George III, that going to see it may almost seem redundant. Adding to the gallons of ink spent on both sides of the Atlantic praising Alan Bennett's writing and Nigel Hawthorne's performance as the title character would be tedious if the accolades were not so richly deserved. Everything you've heard is true--this is a phenomenal play and will probably never receive a performance as rich as the one it is now getting...
Surprisingly, Expos, the course everyone loves to hate, did not appear to be fazing the intrepid SPAHsies. Most of them simply found it tedious and too time-consuming. As Pattabiram put it, surviving in the writing class is a matter of "figuring out how to juggle things...
Unfortunately, with so much of the film perfectly fitting Tim Burton's talents, it suffers from Burton's perenial downfall: weak continuity. Poor Jack's character shifts a few too many times for comfort. The romantic subplot is weakly developed, tedious and extraneous. Interestingly, in Burton's book version of the film, Iushly illustrated by the author himself, the romance angle is completely excised. It is tragic that with every other aspect so fully realized, Burton could not muster up a solid storyline once...
Matthew Bernstein literally plays the straight man to the rest of the cast's antics, portraying the indignant homophobic lawyer with an energy that keeps some of the court scenes from dragging. Towards the end of the play, the courtroom arguments get tedious, broken occasionally by Richard Yanowitz's convincing rendition of a batty judge...
...understanding what dreams represent and what import their meanings may have upon life is the major practical and philosophical question that Mark-Alem must face. Yet as he attempts to evaluate this unreal world, he slowly drifts away from the one he had been a part of. "How tedious, grasping, and confined this world seemed in comparison with the one he now served," he reflects on his first day off. Here Kadare explores not only the immense, controlling structure of the state, but also its influence on those who participate in it, conscious of their collaboration. And although his musings...