Word: tediousness
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...content of the films is not worth the resulting headache. Besides the effective cartoons, there is an explanation of the "Tri-Optic technique and a tedious British travelogue. After a long and enjoyable intermission, the showing resumes with the flickering Sadler Wells ballet. Often in these latter pictures, a dimension is misplaced and the scenes appear flat and ordinary. More research and better material are necessary to change Tri-Optic films from an experiment to entertainment...
Another short poem by Ziegler--who does very well at this--and a well-written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman who waits patiently for his father's death to be willed his fishing boat only to have the will leave the boat's engine to his uncle. This is hardly an intrinsically amusing situation...
...Tedious, backbreaking cape and sword lessons with Rodolfo Gaona, "Mexico's best and one of the three greatest matadors* of all time," taught Franklin that bullfighting was grinding work. He learned to respect the brave bulls, too. "But what enthralled me most," says frank Sidney Franklin, "was the absolute idolatry in which the crowd held the fighters." Extroverted, extravagant, foolish and flamboyant, Franklin surf boarded through the '20s on this idolatrous wave, bathing himself in a thunderous surf of resounding...
Author George Axelrod has given Ewell an admittedly tough part, full of long soliloquies which must be kept fresh lest the play become tedious. Ewell plays a junior executive whose seven year marriage is interrupted briefly when his wife and small son vacation to Cohasset...
Everything I Have Is Yours (MGM) is a words-and-music movie in which the music bogs down in the words. The tedious script has to do with the on-again, off-again romance of a husband & wife musicomedy team (Marge and Gower Champion). When Marge retires to have a baby, she is replaced by sultry Understudy Monica Lewis. Jealous Marge has to take her troubles to a divorce lawyer before the couple is finally, laboriously reunited...