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...with innocuous studies of the British monarchy's past and future. At times, the severe White House restrictions on camera placement left viewers with the suspicion that the show had been staged by Andy Warhol. Finally, PBS could obviously do nothing about the choice of a tired and tedious Bob Hope and the Captain & Tennille, slicked-up country singers, as postprandial entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoint: Lobster-to-Mints Bore | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...taken in its two-hour entirety, Harry and Walter is not very tedious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sowing Wild Oafs | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...would require practice to become tedious. Christopher Porterfield

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sowing Wild Oafs | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

Gibbon's work has been much praised in London. The first edition of 1,000 copies was sold within two weeks, and a second printing of 1,500 has just been issued. But there has been angry criticism of what Gibbon calls a "tedious but important" matter: his treatment of religion. Gibbon himself became a convert to Roman Catholicism while at Oxford, and he returned to Protestantism only at the insistence of his wealthy father. By now a thorough skeptic, he speaks of the early Christians with amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lessons in Decay | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN The Touch, Ingmar Bergman's first English-language film, knows how tedious and heavy-handed a Bergman movie can be. Even the successful Scenes from a Marriage, with many scenes that are at once profound yet understated in presentation, is sometimes long-winded. In Face to Face, Bergman's newest film, the poigancy of the best scenes is undercut by insistence on spelling out his message over and over. In this case, the overkill is not so much verbal as structural; the entire conception of the film is flawed. In Scenes from a Marriage, one overlooks...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Eyeball to Eyeball | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

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