Word: tedium
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...background and gives him too little to do. Not that the English comedian's flight to France and sophisticated comedy is entirely dull. The mere presence of the old master on the screen would be enough to keep any film from sinking into the grey depths of tedium. The main trouble with this one is that the audience gets an uncomfortable feeling that just out of camera range is a writer who worries more about working out his plot than giving the actors something funny...
...weak sisters, I much preferred the Chekhov piece. Director Martin Mintz seems to have paced the response too slowly, although much of the tedium through the middle of the play can be blamed on the author's excessive repetitiveness. John Fenn, as the psychosomatically ill suitor, was amusing, although he sometimes twitched about more embarrassingly than humorously. Dick Merlo heartily fulfilled the part of the father, but Laura Pincus, as Natalia, contributed little more than her presence on the stage. Nevertheless, Marriage Proposal was moderately successful as a brief entertainment...
...Maryknolls, convent-educated Deirdre Ryan visited the mother house from 5:15 a.m. till 9 p.m. daily for three days. She joined the sisters in their devotional, working and recreational periods, and soon saw for herself that convent life is not-in the words of the jest-all tedium and Te Deum. There were, for example, the sisters on a work detail clearing stumps and burning brush who wisely took along marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent...
...orthodox contingent in Jerusalem's city government has seen to it that public transportation is banned from the streets; shops and cinemas are closed. For the unobservant Jews, who make up about half Jerusalem's population outside Mea Shearim, the Sab bath became a day of insufferable tedium...
...Within a week after being sworn in, McCarran made a Senate speech against an Administration-backed cut in veterans' pensions. The bill passed, and McCarran learned a lesson he never forgot: he discovered that Senate power flows not from oratory on the floor, but comes slowly from the tedium of the committee room...