Word: boredome
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...viewer is more likely to be caught between boredom and sleep. Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately...
Mike Nichols' The Graduate is a reactionary's substitute for Bonnie and Clyde as candidate for American nouvelle vague honors of 1967. The comedy elicits some laughs and the steady pacing prevents boredom, but when the last shot has meandered off the screen. The Graduate lives on in the mind as a dramatic cheat and a vivid example of Hollywood besieged by the creeping uglies...
...usual small crowd--including Athletic Director Adolph Samborski--watched in boredom as Harvard slogged to a 25-24 halftime lead. In one of the worst halves of basketball the IAB has ever seen. Dartmouth rallied from a 9-1 deficit only to fall behind on a Gallagher layup at the buzzer...
Radio Appreciation. With his college savings of $500, Gould went to England in 1930 for four months to study literature at Oxford; the Depression forced him to return home and find work. After a year of boredom as a telephone-company traffic manager, he accepted a job teaching English at a Hartford high school. To make ends meet, he took a summer job as an announcer, producer and scriptwriter for Hartford's radio station WTHT, then organized a radio-appreciation course for his students. In 1934, while on a year's leave studying English at Cambridge...
...emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird might say) that Macmillan played a large, though unobtrusive role in the war. He had spent the first 21 exhausting but unrewarding months as parliamentary liaison man with various wartime ministries. He had survived the boredom of the phony war and a bomb in the Carlton Club that might have wiped out the Conservative Party. He dealt with such power brokers as Lord Beaverbrook and such heroes as the Earl of Suffolk (a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney), who appeared in Macmillan's office...