Word: tediousness
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...stage divides the audience in half, so that when there are only two or three actors on stage, one stares across a gaping empty space at faces staring back. Paul Sapounakis' set tries for the monumental simplicity that the play requires, but achieves only the simplicity. Its barrenness is tedious. The grotesque dances of the townsfolk, which might have been a ballet of such grandeur as to fill the emptiness of the Second Act, were undisciplined and flaccid...
...CRIMSON'S stalwart varsity cagers caged their way to a rather tedious 73-2 victory over WHRB yesterday afternoon in the Blockhouse. Big Steve Roberts with a dazzling display of pothangers, bunnies, crips, and layups, paced the CRIMSON with four points...
...tedious preparations of the capsule and the Atlas booster inevitably were timeconsuming. The ten postponements of Glenn's flight added to the frustration, made Project Mercury appear to be earthbound. "We could have put a man up a year ago," explains Operations Director Williams, "but it would have been a maximum-risk situation. It would have been a fifty-fifty chance." When Glenn lifted off last week, he, his capsule and his Atlas-D were as ready as they would ever be for a minimum risk try at attaining an orbit. And John Glenn, tempered by his years of preparation...
...tape six readings of a poem of his own and has carefully controlled sound qualities and interplay of voices. Whispers hissed above brisk utterances, and the sound swelled to an offensive cacophony which subsided with "love's a pool of blood/and death a soaring sparrow." The jerky rhythms were tedious and the sounds at times quite unpleasant. Use of total control in so artless a fashion shows just why the school of spontaneity has rebelled from fixed musical organization...
...Italians, like the French, are fearfully somber about their soulless, hellbent young-who, if a succession of tedious new-and old-wave films are to be believed, are constantly chewing gum, listening to jazz, riding motor scooters and wearing sunglasses in every conceivable stage of degradation. Every now and then, Director Mauro Bolognini remembers that he is supposed to sermonize, and there follows a cancer-at-the-heart-of-society scene. The punks unbutton their shirts to the navel (male exposure is the latest thing in social cancer) and lounge around glaring at one another. Nothing happens, which...