Word: tediousness
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...mistake to compare 2010 to 2001, but it is after all a sequel, despite director Peter Hyams' claims to the contrary. The long, even tedious, introduction at the beginning, explaining the action of 2001 belies Hyam's statement that he intended to make a completely independent film, 2001 may have left you wondering what exactly Stanley Kubrick was trying to say, but it was definitely an intriguing film and helped define the science fiction genre. It must be remembered that when the film opened in 1968, man had yet to walk in space, put laboratories and reusable space vehicles into...
...carver's trade is as tedious as his art is exquisite, it turns out, and this time-consuming aspect of his craft has opened a deep rift between the decoy man and his colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only...
After all the lovely and awful games of an occasionally tedious but ultimately fleeting baseball season, the desire to go out on a high moment is still strong. Even on the edge of a championship fully anticipated since April, the Detroit Tigers themselves seemed to be hoping for a better stage than a World Series only notable, and not remarkable, for scraps of drama-an exhilarating Chet Lemon catch or an excruciating Bobby Brown slump or two professional pitching performances by Jack Morris. When San Diego seemed all but finished, Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson said, "I wish before this...
FRASER'S ENGAGING style succeeds where a conventional historian's might be tedious. She is a troubadour who effortlessly recounts a story she has exhaustively researched, and documented. The Weaker Vessel is a welcome addition to the slowly growing field of women's studies. It is also a warning that, as in the England of Elizabeth I, "it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again." This statement is made parenthetically, but it stands as the central motif of the book. As in 17th-century England, there are more...
...advent of genetic engineering in the 1970s made such tedious work obsolete. Using methods for dissecting molecules, the two groups of researchers reporting in Science were able to identify the specific antigen, found on the surface of the sporozoite, that is responsible for producing immunity to this stage of the parasite, and they were able to unravel part of the chemical structure of the antigen. To their surprise, it was quite simple. So simple, says Victor Nussenzweig, "that it can be very easily synthesized using plain, old-fashioned chemistry." Nonetheless, a vaccine based on the antigen still faces...