Word: boredome
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...from a box at the Army-Navy football game. Though a theoretically neutral observer (he spent the first half on Navy's side, the second half on Army's), Old Navyman Kennedy cheered Navy home to a 34-14 victory, but at times seemed to lapse into boredom at the lopsided game...
...bittersweet mood of boredom (in every scene a clock seems to be ticking) is classically Chekhovian. The actors-Alexei Batalov and lya Savvina-are at once wholly natural and wholly professional, and Director Josef Heifitz' black-and-white camera work, while academic, manages magically to evoke the torpid heat of Yalta, the snowy chill of Moscow. And nowhere in the film is there a foot of propaganda-either for home consumption or for foreign eyes...
Before the first trickle of sunlight, lust, cynicism and murder get their melodramatic comeuppance. The meek do inherit the earth, but boredom has long since claimed the stage...
...rest of the ladies are brought into the business mainly to give afternoon audiences something to cluck over. Shelley Winters carries on a dalliance with a little-theater director mainly to escape the boredom of life with her lummox of a husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon...
...Confi-Guide": inside scoop on all courses. Sample: Government 130, taught by Presidential Adviser Don K. Price, who "can usually be found in Washington," with the result that "his appearances usually seemed unprepared, were often unintelligible and practically never interesting." Or: "Philosophy 140 explores deductive logic to the immense boredom of everyone, including Professor Willard Quine. The lectures are insulting, the homework assignments mechanical, the sections poor, and the reading-period selections juvenile...