Word: tediousness
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...like recent women's literature, is, by and large, dominated by those with a penchant for subjective reporting--documentation of a personal struggle, digging into one's past for an explanation of the present. At times, this genre, this "let-me-spill-out-my-guts-to-you", can become tedious and self-indulgent (witness Ms. Magazine). At times, however, it can be extremely effective...
...evening, "Faint heart never won fair lady." Zax, Lewis and Crowley collaborate in a dance number of staggering virtuosity whose best parts don't really begin until the song itself is over. It's all in the encores. What looks on paper and sounds on recordings like a fairly tedious number becomes the high point of the performance, a real show-stopper...
...form, say that with a few amendments the bill could be a good one. But it is probably closer to the truth to estimate, as does the American Civil Liberties Union, that only after about 2600 amendments would S.1 be palatable. Once the bill hits the Senate floor, the tedious legal process and the sheer size of S.1 will prevent more than ten amendments from being adopted. By then everyone will be weary and the bill will be put up to a vote...
That kind of approach works fine for presidential campaign biographies and The Lou Gehrig Story, but it's pretty thin stuff for serious historical scholarship. The result is a tedious, one-dimensional narrative that reveals little about Rayburn the Speaker or Rayburn the man. Steinberg generally hovers at the level of cliche, as in his description of young Rayburn's reaction to a speech by Texas Congressman Joe Bailey: "With a prophecy born of youthful excitement, he predicted that one day he would also become a congressman like Bailey...
...hard-core sex was obviously the hard core of the film's structure. Cut the crud and all you have left is a lot of tedious - not to say infantile - intellectual foreplay. Abduction cannot be taken seriously enough to laugh at, and natural curiosity about links with the Hearst case should be sternly stifled...