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...three plays complement each other nicely and make for an enjoyable evening. If you happen to find one tedious, the two others are sure to compensate...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: 3 Absurdities | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...good as they are, the players under Joseph Chaikin's direction demand a certain degree of tolerance--for the simple reason that their medium remains largely untried and unpredictable. Moments, even whole scenes, are tedious; and some which aren't seem badly out of place. I'd quarrel specifically with the passing out of apples among the audience which, while it holds the attention tolerably, destroys a certain measure of audience identification with the players on stage, an identification which comes in handy before and after. The Open Theatre, if one can judge by this product, does not seem...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Open Theatre...and the Closed | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

...bulletin" wire service approach. All too often, he claims, decisions affecting countless citizens or millions of taxpayer dollars are made by "an anonymous civil servant who is neither responsible to the electorate nor responsive to its voice." Pinpointing such officials and exposing governmental deception normally require weeks of persistent, tedious probing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wire Services: Beyond Bang-Bang Bulletins | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...Snow informed the press that the eleventh and final Strangers and Brothers novel will deal with "death, judgment, heaven and hell." If The Sleep of Reason is any indication of Snow's ability to deal with speculative issues in fiction, the next novel will prove a rather tedious and drawn-out farewell to Lewis Eliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Generation On Trial: Generation on Trial | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...hotel room waiting for telephone calls that might never come, or under street lights at secret rendezvous points. For appointments that might never be kept. For the big brains of the fedayeen are not down by the riverside, but in and around Amman. To find them is tricky and tedious. Because of their inbred sense of secrecy and sheer disorganization, it is nightmarishly hard to get these people to cooperate on a project like ours. All we wanted was to know all about their secret bases, their secret techniques, their secret identities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

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