Word: tediousness
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Unfortunately, there are other incidental characters scattered about for various reasons, and some of them detract considerably from the fun. George Cole is unnecessarily tedious as a naive vacuum cleaner salesman, and Jill Adams's prettiness does not hide her bland acting as a bride-to-be with whom Cole gets entangled under...
...Love Possessed (570 pp.; Harcourt. Brace; $5) is reared on a theme from the 17th century metaphysical poet Fulke Greville: "Passion and reason, selfe-division cause." This theme is developed almost musically, but it is the austere music of a Bach fugue, architectonic, contrapuntal, slow, majestic, sometimes irritatingly tedious, always impressive if not steadily arresting. It is played in a minor key, for this is a bitter comedy sounding life's black notes. The prevailing mood is irony, starting with the title itself. In Cozzens' meaning, "possessed" stands for "seized" or ''made mad." The more...
...Louis Dublin's report [July 22] is another step proving the value of the recommended amount of fluoride content in the drinking water as a safe, effective health measure to reduce tooth decay. Educating the masses to the benefits and acceptance of health measures is a tedious task for professional groups and public health workers. It is a job that requires much outside assistance, such as your publication gives...
Monday evening's opening was marred by none of the foibles which often make the play long, tedious and choked with Shavian didacticism. The production moved quickly from the peaks of Shavian wit and left the sprawling valleys of Shaw's philosophizing to shift for themselves...
Even in racist South Africa, a whole tribe cannot be uprooted without due process of law. Faced with such tedious proceedings, Minister Verwoerd let it be known that the 410 families of the tribe were themselves quite ready and willing to go. But when Verwoerd's trucks arrived last week, the Mamatola refused to budge. Standing barefoot in a faded green sweater among his councilors, the aging chief of the tribe gazed about him helplessly. "The government tells me I must move," he said, "but my people want to stay on in their mountain home. Let them take away...