Word: tedium
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Except for the tedium, however, the crews are not suffering. The barge companies supply all meals, and the fare is fine. The men on the Ann Blessey polish off inch-thick steaks several times a week. Lunch one day last week on the Hawkeye consisted of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, tamale pie, green beans, pineapple upside-down cake and fresh bread. "The cook's probably working harder than anybody," says Dennis Drury, captain of the Cooperative Vanguard...
...dash into the national spot light, all may have benefited indirectly from his heroics. He not only made their expected November foe, Ronald Reagan, look ineffectual for not gaining Goodman's release earlier, but brought new stirrings of excitement to a Democratic race that had been drifting toward tedium almost before it began. For the moment, anyway, Jesse Jackson was the life of the party...
...else maybe one'll run up into the grandstand and smash the guy selling the crummy hot dogs." Her aggressive remark is double-honed: it registers Fran's contempt for her enforced surroundings and the notion that there is nothing like violence to break up tedium...
...actor. When Chase's characters conform well to his klutzy-but-optimistic comic routine--as with the memorable Gerald Ford satires in the first years of the Not For Prime Time Players--he is a very funny man. But when Chevy has to be himself, the result is merely tedium, as has been the case with most of his film career...
...find it, and seven more years to establish our right to keep it." Finding it involved 400,000 miles of crisscrossing the ocean, towing special magnetometers developed by Treasure Salvors' Fay Feild, an electronics engineer. Occasionally, Fisher brought in seers, psychics and trained dolphins to break the technological tedium. There were thousands of fruitless dives into holes blown through 20 ft. of sand. And in 1975 there was tragedy. A week after the Fishers' oldest son Dirk discovered bronze cannons that irrefutably identified the Atocha, he and his wife and another diver drowned when a salvage tug capsized...