Word: tediousness
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...House he watched no fewer than seven U.S. Secret Service men checking the area where Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger were to sit. "I saw them even taste the water in Ford and Kissinger's carafes," says Rossi. The photographer had been standing at his tripod for three tedious hours when finally, he recalls, "I saw that Ford was passing a note to Kissinger. So I took a few frames." To his astonishment, Rossi realized that Ford's note-advising Kissinger that the speech they were preparing was too long-winded and gloomy-was perfectly legible through...
...medieval bestiaries who, living entirely on air, possessed neither anus nor mouth. Indeed, Warhol appears to have no metabolic system at all, and though a number of interesting things (like getting shot in 1968 by one of his deranged hangers-on) have befallen him, he makes them sound uniformly tedious...
...challenge, but it was also tedious and, well, maybe a little disillusioning. "You get really tired of living with people, day in, day out--you didn't really have a chance to get away from people...And I didn't really like a lot of what I saw--things that were unsporting, just bad sportsmanship. I don't know, maybe it's because women's crew is such a new sport, but you'd think you'd be above that by the time you got to the world-championship level. I don't know." She hesitates, not really wanting...
...American political raison d'etre. He is also one of its assassins, Between 1960 and 1969 Agee served as a CIA officer in Latin America. He is a guilty man, and his book, CIA Diary, is a confession of his sins. Through five hundred and ninety-seven tedious pages, Agee chronicles his participation in bribery, extortion, bombing, spying, lying and torture, all in the service of the United States government. To make his expiation of guilt complete, Agee lists the names and occupations of over 200 CIA agents and, organizations, as well as giving detailed accounts...
...theater lobbies--and give those people a chance to see the other 97 minutes. MGM would have done better to confine itself to three minutes of Gene Kelly in the puddles. Unveiled in all its technicolor gaudiness, Singin' in the Rain stands revealed as an overblown, badly acted, often tedious extravaganza that almost drowns Kelly's perfect little droplet...