Word: tediousness
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...Paris also underpinned the high standards of early modernist draftsmanship in Matisse, Picasso or Beckmann. Hence, though his relation to the avant-garde was nil, he is no longer to be dismissed as a flashy bore. There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious sight of an artist's guts on parade...
...fifth collection of short stories, Alice Munro, 55, continues to buck the genre's fashionable trend toward miniaturization and microplots. Her characters stubbornly refuse to trudge like zombies through brief but nonetheless tedious interludes. They do not act like literary artifacts or wan verbal gestures toward ennui. They behave, instead, as if they had all the time and space imaginable to lead and ponder their complicated lives. Each of the eleven pieces in The Progress of Love seems to contain enough material for a fair-sized novel; Munro's art of compression emphasizes amplitudes rather than economies...
Several years ago, Rendell wrote two screenplays but she refuses to do any more or to attempt a play for the stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of others. When Bette Midler made a six-figure offer for the rights to Rendell's favorite book, The Killing Doll, the author spurned the offer. Midler, she says, was wrong for the role...
...stranger again on these shores, I survey a landscape whose surface has changed almost beyond recognition. To rehearse these alterations would be tedious, so let us quickly grant what we all know: the 24 states and 13 million inhabitants of 1831 have swelled to 50 and 240 million; scientific advances have stretched beyond my power of foresight; the United States is no longer an infant among nations but the most powerful entity on earth...
...only real problem Expo 86 seems to face is overpopularity. Lines are already long and tedious, and despite the SkyTrain, the best way to get around --often the only way--is on foot. You heard it here first: take comfortable shoes and plenty of patience...