Word: tedium
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...verge of starvation (and Christmas) Peter and Joey rob a grocery store, bashing in the skull of a clerk who tries to stop them. At film's end they are in flight: once again goin' down the road, probably to another half-year of good times, hard knocks, tedium, and a folk guitar strumming on the soundtrack...
This fall in the same arena, the same company plays Jarry with manic polish and aggressiveness. There are moments of tedium, but more than a few moments of genius. Most interesting is Jarry's exploration-from the comic-erotic novel Supermale-of sexual excess pursued to the point of agony and death. Demonstrating incidentally that the body costumed can be more profoundly arousing in theater than the body naked, Jarry on sex as produced by Barrault is visually delightful, intellectually provocative, closer to Sade's black understanding than to Tynan's slick preaching...
...TEDIUM. The era of massive student dissent is now in its sixth year. Few movements can long sustain such an emotional pitch and tension. This fall, students are tired or frustrated or both; they are aware that some problems cannot be solved overnight. CAMBODIA/KENT STATE. The protests last May unified moderate students, who until then had been a kind of silent majority. This had the effect of isolating the radicals, who, in the absence of a restraining force, had previously operated as the vanguard of the student movement. Cambodia/Kent State also opened new lines of communication within universities...
Photographer David Douglas Duncan, whose War Without Heroes was published last week (Harper & Row; 252 pages; $14.95), has managed to recapture the war in all its grisly tedium. Looking deceptively like a cocktail-table art book, Duncan's gloom-shrouded pictures of American fighting men are packed more with fatigue than fight. There are no heroic actions; men shave, take muddy baths, clean up after shellbursts, write letters, stare vacantly at absolutely nothing while waiting for the next pointless action. The photographs have the stink of death, the feel of futility and, on any cocktail table, far surpass alcohol...
...Motors. Most of the men on the assembly line hate their jobs-with a bitterness that can hardly be understood by anybody who performs interesting tasks in comfortable surroundings. At best, reports TIME'S Correspondent David DeVoss, the auto worker's routine is a daily voyage from tedium to apathy, dominated by the feeling that he sheds his identity when he punches the time clock. At worst, in the industry's older plants, his life is one of physical discomfort as well...