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...agonizing of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Mitchell over the political coloration of their candidates is nothing but a tedious, ignorant waste of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1971 | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

...jeuner sur l'Herbe (55), and Delacroix's The Women of Algiers (50), let alone the tedious parade of dwarfs, jesters, harlequins, Castilian grandees and copulating troglodytes that has been issuing from Mougins since 1969, survive in the world's attention for one reason alone: they have been painted by Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anatomy of a Minotaur | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...fact, only Trick E. Dixon himself proves tedious in such company. Always making one thing perfectly clear. Nixonian parodies are inevitably too pat, always threatening to become mere one-joke affairs...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hey kids, what time is it? It's Richard Nixon time! | 10/29/1971 | See Source »

Sacco and Vanzetti is mired in good intentions. And though Montaldo's heart is in the rights place, his camera is not. Narratively, the film is a botch; it wanders and is tedious. Montaldo's boundless sympathy for the anarchist pair erodes his intellectual discipline, and the painstaking journey through the seven-year ordeal is finally not worth the effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...And on Screen | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

Nonetheless, in a tedious attempt to fill their repetitive pages with news, the rock press every three or four months chooses some musician to elevate to the rank of "superstar." People such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, the Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have been accorded this dubious honor, but none has displayed much real staying power. Hendrix and Joplin shuffled off their mortal coil after three albums apiece, and none of the rest of them has been able to do anything exciting since each of their second records. A new Lennon Harrison, Dylan...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: Some of the New Stuff | 10/20/1971 | See Source »

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