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...times, the film presents too much of its excellent source material at once and becomes tedious. Nonetheless, Blood Money is a solid, thorough treatment of a very timely topic...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finally, a Festival Worth Seeing | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...chummy, even familial feel that makes it easy to overlook trivial shortcomings. After intermission, president Juliette Lee '98 and treasurer Shenkiat Lim '98 both spoke ingratiatingly about various farewells. In any other campus orchestra this would have been tedious, but here it afforded the audience pleasure...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehmann Leads a Magical MSO | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...Tear It Up: The Ska Album, consists of a collection of tunes that, for the most part, try to be to ska what soft rock is to rock and roll. But while the album offers a few songs with fair instrumentals, the CD does not succeed, lapsing into tedious and uninteresting music backing repetitive and superficial lyrics...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mon Cherie Skamour | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...weird," an insightful character remarks, upon encountering one of the many bizarre players in Tom Sharpe's new satirical comedy, The Midden. And peculiar the novel certainly is--often funny, at times tedious, but always weird...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fragmented Plot, Offbeat Characters, Humor Fill Pages of `The Midden' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...over again, seeking control over events otherwise relegated to the unchangeable past. Fassbinder brutally exploits the technique of flashback in scenes in which Biberkopf recalls the murder of his girlfriend. Fassbinder offers different voice-overs in each reenactment, which appears in each of the 13 segments. It gets very tedious watching the same clip no less than 14 times, and the often-worthwhile meanings contained within the voice-overs are unfortunately lost when the audience tunes out these segments of the film...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Portrait of a Post-War Psyche Proves Marathon Mini-Series | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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