Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
Though long a lover of film, Conversation For a Dollar is Fisher’s trial film. Filmed on a tight budget, production was difficult and tedious; Fisher says they “worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process three days of film, worked for two more months, saved and borrowed enough to shoot and process one more day of film, worked for four months, saved and borrowed enough to edit and have a print made,” all in order to nourish a half-hour-long independent film to maturity...
...Cool J), the eldest Slocumb and expert mechanic, is given the tedious responsibility of arranging the funeral. He voices his obvious frustration with his role as he tells his wife Lucille, played by Vivica A. Fox (Idle Hands, Independence Day), “When I die, don’t tell anyone. Just bury me in the backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen...
...with his own need for recognition (his hopes are riding on his latest attempt, an off-Broadway play), so having to deal with his father’s sudden desire for fame is a bit much for him. The twists, turns and complications that ensue are too numerous and tedious to fully recount here, but the major point is that the action hinges on two choices. Will Scott actually go through with it and reveal his secret to the world? And will Stephen, Scott’s son, choose to keep trying to live out his potential 183 years, even...
...should be--the well-being of a dolphin is definitely of more importance than the health of the vice president or 60 Portuguese commuters. Of course, Monday's news was far from atypical. Local news always seems to predominate on American television. This lack of balance is both tedious and dangerous...