Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coetzee is at his most surefooted when he crisply narrates events, letting the horror speak for itself. Too often, however, he seems not to trust the reader, stating and restating his distress. The story is also gilded with tedious descriptions of Mrs. Curren's longing for her daughter, which rely on cliches such as "the blood tug of daughter to mother, woman to woman...
...Stewart, Tabori & Chang; $35). The gorgeous photography is by Teri Sandison, but it can be forgiven because of the imaginative excellence of the recipes. Carpenter's aim is to blend Oriental flavors with American cooking techniques, thus preserving the flavors of the East but eliminating many of the more tedious steps required in traditional Eastern recipes. Even the Oriental flavorings he uses are now fairly common grocery-store items...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...Walsh to decide whether to appeal to the full circuit court, take his case directly to the Supreme Court or go along with the tedious hearings. If they are held, Gesell will have to determine if North's other two convictions, for obstructing Congress and accepting an illegal gift, should also be dropped. Whatever Gesell decides, the ruling raises a troubling question about the congressional probes of the scandal: Did the lawmakers' haste to hold sensational hearings guarantee that the culprits would go unpunished...
...looks as if Kohl's Great Historic Moment has been rather brief. A bit of schadenfreude may be in order, though the entertainment value of our family squabble is in rapid decline. The truth of the matter is that the Germans have acquired a normality bordering on the tedious. They have become a nation of successful shopkeepers, incapable of a greatness that the world, in any case, is better off without...