Word: tedium
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...neither the length of the sessions (8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily) nor the tedium of some speakers dampened the playful mood of most participants. Observed one executive: "Among other things, the forum offers a delightful vacation on the expense account." Many came to the meetings wearing ski togs instead of business suits and parked the rest of their sports gear at the door. Said one who attended: "You'd feel naked here without your skis." At night the almost exclusively male executives and their female companions dressed in the finest evening wear and quaffed magnums of champagne...
...movie also fails to maintain this half-mocking stance. Instead, it returns to the typical old flame rekindled, the typical crowed panics, and all of the supposedly impending doom comes off as simple tedium. The music echoes the rumblings of Jaws, and endless towering boadwalks leer at the audience. The movie takes back everything it is trying to create, be they screams of terror or howls of laughter...
...love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious life in a new medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve difficult problems of translation is soon submerged in a tedium that could be dangerous. A couple more minutes of this stuff could lead to Altered States-or anyway, to trying to remember where it, or some other lively yarn, is playing...
...movie can offer such tedium in scene after scene and expect to grab and hold the emotions of its audience. It's a shame someone with Paul Simon's talent and knowledge of the music industry could not turn such a potentially interesting story into a better film...
Businessmen say that one of the biggest frustrations is dealing with its slow and inefficient bureaucracy. Making a deal can often turn out to be an exercise in tedium and sometimes end in disappointment as well. Chase Manhattan Bank last month experienced such problems when its agreement to finance a $250 million trade center in Peking abruptly fell through. The contract was seemingly scrapped after the Peking city government became embroiled in a dispute with China's Ministry of Foreign Trade over the cost of the venture...