Word: tediousness
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...Morgan, an agent of justice, pretends before the lesser crooks that he is a major public menace called The Poet. Then he has to convince them that he is the husband of The Poet's wife (Jane Wyman). This offers a chance for a tedious kind of bedroom humor from which westerns used to be a refuge; at one point Mr. Morgan and Miss Wyman, snug under separate blankets, even play footie. Entertaining moment: Janis Paige, bulging a skintight costume and singing Cheyenne, a pretty nice oat-fed tune...
...evacuated. The Assault is the story of his own participation in one of history's bitterest battles, in which 20,860 out of 71,245 troops who took part were casualties. Unavoidably, it covers much old ground without revealing anything new about war. Yet in its almost tedious realism and painful authenticity it plows deeper into the meaning of combat than many a more artfully written book...
Congressmen were behind in their work. Nevertheless, on the floor of the House they spent most of last week moping through an old argument over the OIC bill for the spread of U.S. culture and ideals (TIME, April 14). On the floor, Senators spent their time in tedious debate over the Bulwinkle-Reed bill, which would exempt railroads from antitrust regulations. That is, the Senators who were there did. Attendance was seldom above 15; one day, the only audience Alabama's John Sparkman had was Maine's tired old Wallace White...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
...falls for little, country-bred Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going to ask you. Ah, poor darling, marriage is one thing and love...