Word: tediousness
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...couple of Harvard professors wanted to know what Hitler's peace terms would be and what guarantee Germany would give to insure just distribution of food sent to Belgium. Many demanded to hear a description of Hitler's funeral, and gibes at Nazi racial laws grew tedious with repetition. Sample whimsies: "God save the King-and God help you," "We are all pure-bred Aryans here. Please let us have some more Japanese music," "Why is Göring so fat and the rest of the Germans so thin?" While wags had a field day with the cables...
...Playwright Franken, a veteran ladies' magazine fictioneer, either does not know or thinks it would not be nice to reveal that what she is handling is the very serious subject of adult infantilism. Claudia's unhealthy immaturity remains masked for three acts behind a screen of tedious, relentless Ladies' Home Journal cuteness...
With appropriate complications, the story meanders on to its predestined end, with the help of a suicide, a hunting accident, a hidden cache of Confederate dollars, a gallant gesture by Yankee Williams. Tedious at times, Virginia at its worst is made bearable by luscious Technicolor shots of Madeleine Carroll and Virginia's red-clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give...
...also cast for bit parts in Trumbo's production. If the devil can quote Scripture, surely an irritated screenwriter can dip into The Federalist. A chapter of The Remarkable Andrew is devoted to the remarkable Dalton's attempt to outwit charges of Communism and pacifism with tedious parodies of Red-baiting...
...with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets downright tedious. But Keenan Wynn's playing is very much alive; and the rest of the cast is commendable. At the curtain you feel they have a right to cry "Author, author." They do need...