Word: tediousness
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Riot in Cell-Block 11 has some points to make about prison reform, and hammers them home with billy clubs and screaming sirens. Doling out undiluted propaganda, the film presents a semi-documentary account of a prison revolt at Folsom Penitentiary, and between tedious explanations of its causes and effects, packs in some excellent action scenes. As a result, Riot presses its criticism of outmoded prison methods relentlessly in both dialogue and action. The effect is almost too strong...
...sell you.' A Plymouth-DeSoto dealer from Boston waved the old-school tie (Harvard) at Alumnus Weeks. A resourceful Hamilton, Ohio dealer pointed out that Hamilton was 500 miles from Washington but offered to drive a new car to the capital for Weeks, '. . . saving you the tedious task of breaking it in.' Most imaginative salesman of all, probably, was an insurance man from Baltimore who wrote, 'Of course you will need some insurance on these automobiles. We offer...
...moral and political decay of the Byzantine Empire spreads like a cancer as his story progresses, but Duggan is moved neither to sentimental sermons nor to tedious explanations borrowed from some textbook. He knows, and makes the reader know, that after all. he writes of a day in which "if the officers are killed the men retire, in good order, towards the nearest wine-casks...
...time she is teenage, Sylvia can read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell's daughter"-to swap sophisticated chaff with Daddy and his "high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created...
...young and in the aged. In the young, he felt, many more disorders were of a type that could be corrected by surgery; gradually the ravages of rheumatic fever (usually scarring and narrowing of valves) were added to the list. But the process is often long and tedious. Many patients at St. Francis stay for two years, and some may be a year or more in a special room, breathing 50% oxygen. No matter how long their treatment may take, the youngsters at St. Francis can count on loving, selfless care, in an atmosphere as homelike as doctors and sisters...