Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...19th century and fill in some of the details of its cultural background. In this they have succeeded very well, though at tiresome length. The pleasures of social discovery and iconographic recognition lie thick on the ground here, but they do not make up for the aesthetic tedium of most of the work on view...
...Payments had a simple and compelling story. Isabel Moore spends eleven years caring for a deeply religious and dying father. Her life during this time is inevitable and straightforward: "care of an invalid has this great virtue: one never has to wonder what there is to do. Even the tedium has its seduction: empty time has always been earned...
Roll Call, by Sen. William S. Cohen is in that desultory tradition. This "liberal" Republican from Maine portrays the mix between tedium and excitement that makes up a Senator's life. He is best known as one of the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee who voted to impeach Richard Nixon in 1974. A senator since 1978, he has few accomplishments to his name...
...table, unable to believe he could hesitate so long before putting a stop to things. Johnson controls the scene, stringing the audience along almost until someone will jump up onstage and drag Orgon from under the table, shouting, "can't you see?" Johnson ends the scene before it reaches tedium or repetitiveness, letting the audience off the hook. Rodger's sarcastic "Are you sure you're satisfied? Maybe you should have waited a little longer!" returns the action to its previous level of comedy...
...hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes his time with every scene, the effects ranging from mesmerizing to anesthetizing. The sumptuous photography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet rescues several scenes from fatal tedium, always enchanting the eye even when the mine has wandered. Their compositions of toiling farmers framed by a purple sky are almost painfully beautiful if more than a little reminiscent of Nesto Almendros' work in Day of Heaven...