Word: tedium
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...Great American Novel concerns the fortunes of a homeless baseball team, recalls: "Not until I got to college and was introduced to literature did I find anything with a comparable emotional atmosphere and as strong an esthetic appeal baseball, with its longeurs and thrills, its spaciousness . . . its peculiarly hypnotic tedium, its heroics, its nuances, its 'characters,' its language, and its mythic sense of itself, was the literature of my boyhood...
That is not always easy to take, and at one point or another, Godard succumbs to his inevitable weaknesses: tedium, didacticism, political naivete. Still, I'm going to treat Godard sympathetically here. Not because Tout Va Bien is the masterpiece we were hoping for. But because Godard's concerns are real concerns, and because every so often it's useful to take experimentation as seriously as you possibly can, forgive its stupidities, assume that its wildest excesses are flights of genius...
Granted, Harvard did put down the Judge challenge, winning the match 19-8, but between the failures of the electrical judging equipment, the lateness of the director, and the downright tedium of watching good fencers fence inept ones, while looking inept in the process themselves, it was an evening better spent at home reading up for the new term...
...Horses, Don't They", but it was the strength of the screenplay and acting that made that film seem so much more significant. Pollack was faced in Horses with the restricted arena of a marathon dance floor and its dressing rooms, the problem of following moving dancers, and pacing tedium and crisis in the course of the marathon. Only top lighting could be used because the cameras needed to pan all 360 degrees of perimeter, and it was emential to give a sense of the central couple's positions on the floor. Pollack won an Academy Award nomination, not just...
...covered by major contracts that are up for renewal, v. only 2,800,000 last year, and they include such powerful and trend-setting groups as the auto workers, electrical workers, meat packers and Teamsters. The auto unionists are pressing for changes in work rules to alleviate the tedium of the assembly line; the main factor mitigating chances of a strike is that the United Auto Workers' war chest is down to $45 million, compared with $120 million when the unionists struck General Motors...