Word: tediousness
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Buttrio Square (music by Arthur Jones & Fred Stamer; book by Billy Gilbert & Gen Genovese; lyrics by Mr. Genovese) is the sort of 1880-style musical that would have looked old hat in 1912. In 1952 it is overpoweringly tedious and trite-all about G.I.s in an occupied Italian village where fraternizing is forbidden. An American captain is secretly married to a native girl, the girl is going to have a baby, a sentimental old Italian wants his wife to have one, and the village needs one more inhabitant to graduate into a town. Though Buttrio Square is the center...
...rough, seldom noticed, and never remembered. Since the lineman must cat some mud, the problem is to make him like it, so Schmitt tries to keep him laughing. Although Schmitt is the first to admit that his humor on the field would fall flat in the drawing room, the tedious work of assaulting a metal blocking machine makes his audience extremely receptive. "If you look hard, you can find something funny in almost any football situation," says Schmitt...
...Council argued rightly that many non-residents must either wait at the University until 9:00 or return from their homes to pick up books. No two cases are the same, but for some commuters the nine o'clock rule is a tedious restriction...
...wish to live off campus patronize a well-staffed househunting headquarters, conspicuously placed in the main administration building. But the University's has been shunted off to the second floor of Phillips Brooks House. Understaffed and ill-located, the office can offer students only token help in the tedious but important job of finding a house to live...
...should have stuck to his original idea of telling just the family history. As it stands. East of Eden is a huge grab bag in which pointlessness and preposterous melodrama pop up as frequently as good storytelling and plausible conduct. Cathy's story, gamy, lurid, and told at tedious length, is all but meaningless. Almost as tiresome is the figure of Lee, the Trasks' trusted Chinese houseman, whose warmed-over Oriental wisdom and too gentle heart give the whole California story an overdose of stickiness...