Word: tediousness
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Faint praise, perhaps, at a time when network mini-series have sunk to the soap-opera drivel of North and South and Kane & Abel. But Bleak House is also a step above the general run of tony, tasteful and sometimes tedious British drawing-room dramas that arrive regularly on these shores. There is, for one thing, scarcely a drawing room to be found. The beautifully detailed production moves with ease from the grand country estate of Lord and Lady Dedlock (Robin Bailey and Diana Rigg) to the drab chambers of Chancery and into the sad, grimy streets of London slums...
...also reserved about the prospects for the Harvard-Yale tailgate when it hits Allston next in 2006. Tedious and meticulous negotiations between University Hall, HoCos, the UC, and the BPD originally yielded an agreement with which nearly all were satisfied: no kegs, no UHauls, and wristbands to regulate a central beer supply. In the wake of the safe and successful event, the BPD accused Harvard officials of misleading them about the size and scope of the party. In most cases, the BPD’s concerns can be addressed with a few logistical changes: more port-a-johns and more...
...pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do 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...
...Paranoid bureaucracy isn't unique to the Bush administration. It's everywhere here. On our way into screenings we have to pass through check points, which delays our finding seats by another tedious 30 seconds. The security guards are movie-star cute and astonishingly incompetent as they try to run their electronic batons over our purses. Why can't we frisk them? It's all they're good...
Michael Ware chooses to keep quiet about certain aspects of Baghdad life: the careful, tedious planning to bolster the security of staff members as they gather reporting, the anxious waiting for a colleague who has not shown up on time, the instinctive action taken in a dangerous situation to avoid disaster. As TIME's bureau chief in the bomb-blasted city, Ware has been through his share of harrowing silence. Yet it has not hampered his ability to put into words the explosive stories that have made our coverage of the conflict in Iraq stand out over the past...