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...cute house, the nice neighborhood, the exceptional TV set. Afterwards everyone has a monologue−Pierre on the importance of memory, Charlotte on the importance of living in the present, the journalist on the importance of intelligence. Then Charlotte and Pierre go to bed and run through the predictably tedious anatomical rituals and the same signals across space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: That Old Feeling | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...annoyed or insulted at the content matter (the lecherous priest who is having an affair with his parishioner's wife) can find good excuse, but if you view the play solely for amusement, it's quite enjoyable. Innes McDade, as Tyb, was good on the whole, but rather tedious. Her facial expressions tended to be too artificial, falling into set patterns for each emotion she wanted to convey, and Johan's artful interplay with the audience lost its easy intimacy and became rather forced when she attempted to employ it. Jack Salomon, as the priest, was more natural and consequently...

Author: By Maxine S. Paisner, | Title: Three One-Act Plays | 8/2/1965 | See Source »

...measurement machines do not seem able to detect it, but listeners' eardrums are evidently more sensitive. For years, radio and TV owners have been blitzing the Federal Communications Commission with complaints about the loudness of commercials in comparison to the sound level of programs. Last week, after a tedious two-year study, the FCC agreed with the complaints. They "obviously cannot be dismissed on the ground that 'commercials aren't really loud, they just sound loud,'" declared the commission. The presentation of commercials "in a loud, rapid and strident manner" is "contrary to the public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Trying to Lower the Boom | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Uncle Vanya | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

...took just about every test known to neurologists before doctors at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center were certain what was wrong: Donald Morton was suffering from musicogenic epilepsy, a disease as rare as it is difficult to treat. And if diagnosis was difficult, treatment was tedious indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: That Stardust Malady | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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