Word: tedium
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...racing to leave each other as well. The gun that introduces The Steward never goes off. Instead the Midwestern farm boy called upon to protect his grandparents, mother and brother from a lunatic reported to be in the area encounters nothing but a heightened awareness of the tedium of family routines...
...ragged sleeve, Tony Shalhoub is a masterpiece of spite. He rants and raves against the evils of his society but can't escape his hunger for those rich possessions which he claims to disdain. Shalhoub knows how to milk a good joke, but he occasionally drifts into tedium by repeating the same gag or mannerism...
...Hair of the Dogma keeps the play from sinking into tedium. The ancillary characters certainly enliven it: the professor rants about the nature of atomic particles and the propensity for human beings to turn into bicycles, and the Irish lad spins yarns of the miraculous healing powers of his brother...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern has its moments of tedium--it is, after all, quite a long play--but the actors in the title roles sufficiently eliminate it with their quick repartee. Some pregnant pauses in the script are wisely omitted, and the supporting cast carries its weight...
Baseball these days, as all agree, is the national pursetime: overpaid and oversold, merchandising brief bursts of tedium between flurries of beer commercials. Ah, but when the world was young, thinks the old child, the former boy, it was all wonderful. I remember...