Word: tedium
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...actively try to analyze the music, it falls apart, and this unified feel turns into a monotonous, depressing, barely tolerable drone. If Mr. Cent set out to create the aural equivalent of a Queens ghetto to accompany the movie’s actual hood, he has succeeded. The tedium is broken up periodically by some standout tracks. In “What If,” 50 captures some of the same desperation that he pulled off in his outstanding verse on the Game’s “Hate It Or Love...
...little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse of the Yellow Brick Road. Though the film is being marketed...
...setting the pace for the entire set. Though obviously well rehearsed and harmonized, for a typical undergraduate familiar with Top 40 music like me, their classic set tended to be less attention grabbing than the Lowkeys’s pop songs. And yet, the Din and Tonics never approached tedium, partially because of their deft insertion of humor into their acts. For instance, in the “Cheeseburger Song,” Jonathan J. Carpenter ’07 sang about his love for a McDonald’s girl, the “angel in the polyester uniform?...
...Danes assured that not enough passion could be generated for this to be an issue. The only question left to answer is why Danes’ character bothered with him at all—surely the money couldn’t be good enough to make up for the tedium? Admittedly, her other option is Jason Schwartzman, in the role of Jeremy. Armed with a wardrobe of stained clothing and the shiniest bob to grace screens since the late ’20s, Jeremy is the prototypical Slacker—Doritos and all. He’s got some funny...
...much more cost-effective than in-person registration. Online registration eliminates the expense of paying for retired teachers and others to oversee the process; it also gets rid of the high cost of paying workers to stuff almost 10,000 envelopes, and saves those same people from the extreme tedium of such a task...