Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lolita. Wind up the Lolita doll and it goes to Hollywood and commits nymphanticide. Sue Lyon, 14, is the titular heroine of the film, and Peter Sellers lightens the encircling tedium with some inspired foolery...
Admittedly, rock 'n roll satire is a pretty tough business. If you get too juvenile people won't realize that you are trying to be satiric. If the music shows too much imagnation, you fail to capture the essence of rock, which is an uncanny tedium of the same basic sounds welded together by brute rhythm. But satire is possible, if you take into account the basic schools of rock 'n roll thought and try to plan your work within one of the several important traditions in the form...
Played like a play-the action takes place on one set, one quarter of the film was shot in one take-the picture nevertheless never turns stagy, never stops moving as a movie must. Occasionally, a scene is boring, but usually because it intends to suggest the tedium of stagnation, the sameness of life and death in the viscous depths of hopelessness. Occasionally, as in the horrific climax, the picture is crudely exciting. And in one brief episode, a hilarious Oriental hoedown in which four flophouse characters do what looks like a medieval Japanese version of the Twist, Kurosawa...
...while McCormick was writing the Amex success story, a chorus of grumbles was beginning to rise from members who complained that things were run too loosely. Little Mac. they said, liked the Stork Club and the excitement of bringing new companies to the board much better than the tedium of tending to the growing administrative problems of the big exchange he was creating...
...life. His attack is similar to that levelled by these, and numerical men. It is an outcry against the world with its mad race for material and improvement; with its growing callousness among men caught in the machinery of personal economic forces. Throughout the world, he finds a dismal tedium, a loss of purpose and enjoyment. This is nothing new, nor is the irony that man's great material progress as a solution to his difficulties is only an illusion, leading man still deeper into the prison of his own devices...