Word: tediousness
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NORMAN REVEALS a bewildering predilection for nursery rhymes in Traveler-this theme is carried over to Heidi Landesman's set, which features a gingerbread house and a fanciful Mother Goose garden. Sam quotes and analyzes nursery rhymes at great length, and the result is a tedious and heavy-handed string of tired metaphors describing the aforementioned Big Concepts. The funny one-liners which permeate the play also lose their effect after two repetitive hours...
After sitting for six days under the eyes of U.S. Army guards, the Cuban construction workers were permitted to move to a more habitable tent city they had erected near the airstrip. All of the captured Cubans were sent there as the tedious process of interviewing each man continued. The U.S. interrogators wanted to determine just how many were professional soldiers, trained reservists, ordinary workers or various combinations of all three. Many of the prisoners looked too old, paunchy or otherwise unfit to be soldiers...
...mirror and canteen of hot water to shave. And talk. "There's no comparison with Viet Nam," said the Georgian, at 34 older than most of his fellows. "We're here for high visibility, not to engage in combat." Life in any war zone is both tedious and desperately anxious...
...youth in religious vestments. In the early days, just about everyone he met was famous. Even before he made his first film at 28, Buñuel tells us, he had vanquished Heavyweight Champ Jack John son at arm wrestling; he had met Jorge Luis Borges, and found him tedious; Picasso had given him a painting (which he lost), and Lorca had written poems to him (which he quotes). Later, in Holly wood, Charlie Chaplin thoughtfully ar ranged an orgy for Buñuel, and in New York, the power of the Roman Catholic Church was flexed to remove...
Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her novel rings true throughout the film. Before they can understand the society they have chosen to enter. Anne and Olivia must learn to live with the tedious Indian climate and landscape. As an Englishwoman who married an Indian, Jhabvala understands better than anyone the difficulty of living between cultures, neither Indian nor fully British. She endows the relationships between Anne and Olivia and their Indian lovers with a passion and tension which could only derive from common experience...