Word: tediousness
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...weakest member is Swift himself, played by William Morris Hunt. His role demands a constantly shifting personality (since swift was a different being to each of his associates) but at the same time as underlying continuity. Hunt supplies only the later, combining a tendency to talk too fast with tedious, satiric inflections of his voice...
...Union," cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland courtroom to cover the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, on trial for the murder of his pretty, pregnant wife, Marilyn. Last week, after 30-odd long and often tedious trial days, the prosecution closed with a dramatic scene, the testimony of Sam's former mistress, Susan Hayes...
With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
...Florida Justice Glenn Terrell said the U.S. Supreme Court decision was "a great mistake" and would "retard rather than accelerate" the removal of the inequalities that Negroes now suffer. He added: "To homogenize Topsy . . . and Mary who carried her little lamb to school is going to be slow and tedious...
...quickly change from flamboyancy to sulkiness, or from stubbornness to sweetness. No one will deny that this is an admirable talent for any actress. Unfortunately, however, talent in itself is rarely entertaining, and an hour and a half of Magnani's facial contortions, no matter how gifted, is a tedious display...