Word: tediousness
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Though the subject might better belong to the late show or daytime TV, author Liz Coe has written a play that is clever, fast-moving and never tedious. Director Emily Mann has done some nice things too. Her opening is particularly striking, with Casey a backstage silhouette pacing anxiously before she has to come out on stage and do her routine. Mann has skillfully used John Caruso's recorded music to raise the pitch of melodramatic tension during the blackouts. And on the most part the cast was fine...
...what it wants. It's as much fun as playing the radio and watching t.v. and talking to a friend and reading the paper at the same time, and you don't have to follow anything in particular. Finally overconsumption has come to the stage so that those tedious interludes are about as possible as boredom at the Ringling Brothers' all new three ring circus...
...trip was a remarkable demonstration both of TV's powers and limitations. No written account could convey, as did the live camera, the drama of Nixon and Chou touching glasses after a quarter-century of enmity. At the same time, no written account could be as tedious as a camera searching for something-almost anything-to record...
...Pentagon Papers, but The Arnheiter Affair is a bizarre little tale in its own right and is much closer to Sheehan's heart. The book is a good example of how a talented reporter can take a new story all the way to its logical, exhaustive conclusion without becoming tedious. Indeed, The Arnheiter Affair evolved from an assignment cover a Congressional hearing into Navy's decision to relieve Arnheiter of his command two years earlier. Sheehan, whose first instinct was that Arnheiter had clearly been wronged by the Navy, went on to write an in-depth piece for The Times...
...decisive spark to Liza's career was set off when she attended a string of Broadway shows with her mother. "It wasn't that tedious process I saw at Metro," she says. "I could see it happening before my eyes. The chorus of Bye Bye Birdie fascinated me. It had kids in it, and a camaraderie that I recognized. It seemed like an answer to the kind of loneliness I felt. Just friends kidding around, with lots of laughter." Two years later she quit school and began trying to join in the laughter...