Word: tediousness
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...exist, Beckett would have to un-invent him so that he could carry on his distinctly Irish ritual, the wake. All of Beckett's plays are wakes for God. His desperate cosmic longings are deeply felt; but prolonged mourning, like anything else, does grow tedious. That is why Beckett is best in small doses. A brief cloudburst of tears like the one-acter, Krapp's Last Tape, is morosely refreshing, but a full-length downpour like Godot leaves one in a state of nihilistic depression...
...retrospect, the sturdy figure of Gertrude Stein looms over the cultural landscape of pre-World War I Paris like an old-fashioned radio-squat, massive, dark and droning out an endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some...
...anything you want, baby, but just don't step on my blue suede shoes. Elvis is often an annoying, tedious, mundane film. It uses close-ups when long-shots are demanded. It cuts away from the action before it ever has a chance to begin. Rumor has it that only when the cameramen had folded up their gear and scurried back to their editing rooms, did Elvis begin to put on a show. Which is exactly as it should be. For film here is the villian, Presley its occasionally almost tragic victim...
WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale plot fragments saturated in Faust-derived moralizing. The combination is heavy, uneven and often downright tedious, but director Louis Criss breathes some life into the subject matter through experiments, somewhat erratic, in fusion of stage and film action. Though all focus disappears in Zones 1 and 3, largely due to an undisciplined spate of plot elaborations, Criss and his acting troupe salvage Zone 2, "The Occupied Zone," thus granting their audience a few moments of genuine excitement...
...Hills, I did begin to care some for the man as I sat through two dozen of Brel's songs. Brel never fools around with key and time changes, and, after Bacharach, popular music that relies on conventional construction and stanza development has to work hard not to sound tedious...