Word: tedium
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...even appear until the second act, the first is spent as the town's officials establish that they are all bastards and vulnerable to even the most superficial housecleaning. The first act doesn't work too well, but it does establish the necessary preliminaries. The act is redeemed from tedium by the performances of two local landowners, Peter Ivanovich Dobchinski (Tom Wright) and Peter Ivanovich Bobchinski (Michael V. Toumanoff). Identically dressed and indistinguishable, they create another minor problem in confused identity...
What snatches Mother back from the brink of tedium is the talent and unpolluted enthusiasm-of its young ten-member cast. Kelly Garrett, all bangs and boots and big, big eyes, sings from somewhere deeper than the thorax. Each time her small frame produces that large voice it is a surprise, and after a while the listener understands that there is more than physical equipment and technique at work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares...
...came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high disregard for the tedium of slow-moving House hearings and meetings. He much preferred more sociable activities. His annual May party at his handsome house on the outskirts of Washington was a celebrated social event, with the guest list running...
...avoid the tedium of subtitles and the artificiality of dubbing. Ophuls uses a translator's technique. The speaker begins then is faded down, and his English "voice" translated with full inflection and character. Newsreels are sub-titled; so are the Englishmen. Anthony Eden is interviewed in both French and English. The subtitles help as a change in tempo, and besides, dubbing Lord Avon would be less charming than listening to his English-accented French...
...thematic concern of the film. La Salamandre is ultimately about this process of the single character preempting all argument. Rosemonde listens tolerantly to the quasi-Marxist arguments of her two lovers, but she is no more able to submit herself to political discipline than she can to the alienating tedium of factory work. Pierre and Paul are no more successful at providing her with a larger coherent vision of experience than they are at incorporating her into their aborted narrative. The event herself triumphs over the interpretation...