Word: boredome
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...Pallenberg and Michele Breton) just hang around, giggling a lot and getting into bed and king-sized bathtubs with anyone available. The film, which pretends to have something more or less profound to say about exchanges of identity and loosening of moral fiber, alternates between incomprehensible chichi and flatulent boredom. Donald Cammell, the writer and codirector, edits his film elliptically and achieves a suffocating sense of baroque paranoia, but seemingly endless cliches overcome all the subliminal imagery...
...When we recite the roll of the boring [July 13], how can we leave out that evangelist of bisexualism, Gore Vidal? And who could think of either Vidal or boredom without thinking of the King of Leer, William F. Buckley Jr.? Who could be more tiresome than Billy Graham? The list is obviously far from complete...
...joke, but the self-consciousness they enforce and the sniggering communal sensibility they impose lay heavily on the play. The emotional changes which should animate the third act are lost; the tension which should carry us over the hump of the comedy-only tautness can stave off boredom in humor-is flaccid...
...resolved," says Director Williams, "because I wanted to throw the choice back to the audience." Well and good, but the ending crests without climaxing, reducing the whole scene to "Lady or the Tiger" trickery. Williams also errs occasionally in reproducing the monotony of A's life; the boredom is sometimes not intense enough to be more than just boring...
Although it sounds like the name of a new and slightly pompous magazine, events is in fact a sermon: the wages of sexual indulgence are boredom, anxiety and spiritual sterility...