Word: tediousness
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...disproving and dispelling the erroneous assumptions of psychoanalytic theory, Sherfey has presented us with what is least helpful in the quest for sexual enlightenmnet--a counter-mythology. Her statements are for the most part purely speculative and overtly feminist, and they contribute only to prolonging, rather than resolving, a tedious battle of the sexes. In the effort to proceed from sexual politics and polemics to knowledge, Sherfey's tack is a dead...
...Kovell is the model liberal, upholding the life of the mind and responsibility to the commonweal. By night he juggles his "family" of six girl friends. Most of the girls have an illustrative neurosis. But after more than 100 pages of Kovell's describing his curative powers in tedious Deep Throat detail, it is time to reconsider H.L. Mencken's endorsement of monogamy as convenient and hygienic...
What numbs the outside is the tedious, hurry-and-then-wait routine of military processing. The soldiers must have their urine analyzed, their baggage searched by M.P.s and sniffed by dope-attuned dogs, and their bodies frisked before they are finally herded into Waiting Room A or Waiting Room B. There they sit restlessly on orange plastic chairs, staring at travel posters, talking little, some playing hearts, gin rummy or chess until flight time is finally announced...
...more interesting subjectivity to indulge than Fellini, but self-indulgence on this grand scale tends toward incoherence. This is personal journalism driven to the limit, the reporter reporting himself. And, inevitably, Romabecomes a film of moments, some as brilliant as anything Fellini has ever done, others tedious failures...
Discussions could be long, sometimes heated, sometimes tedious. But when a decision had been reached that a certain course should be omitted, it was dropped, and good riddance. Then what to do about courses which were in part still relevant? They had to be overhauled in detail; new outlines, textbooks and collateral reading had to be prepared. Perhaps most important of all was for the teachers to see the material of their field in a new light...