Word: boredome
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...sort of watchdog commission to prevent any outside interference. As the conference began, there wasn't a ghost of a chance of getting anything like that. Some cynics suggested that the best thing the Kennedy Administration could hope for was a protracted, tedious session that would disguise with boredom what was happening to Laos. Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans to turn the whole chore over to Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman as soon as possible and head for home...
...these sordid vignettes succeed quite well, but, taken together, they do not comprise any kind of dramatic growth. Marcello's interlude with Steiner not only is unconvincing, but a bore in addition. If the funeral pace was intentional--to contrast with the orgies--Fellini erred in trying to express boredom by boring his audience. Although the Steiner episode should ostensibly have served as the keystone of his plot, Fellini did not shape it clearly enough to provide motivation for Steiner's suicide: he leaves us with only the orgy to fall back on. Without any sharply defined motivation...
...Dolce Vita. The road to hell in this I case is Rome's Via Veneto, and it is paved with the good intentions of a gossip reporter, who slides into corruption (he becomes a pressagent) during three screen hours divided equally between boredom and skillfully done scenes of moral decay...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror...
...Dolce Vita (in Italian). Federico Fellini's vast (three hours) dramatization of the Apocalypse as a modern saturnalia wallows in boredom, but also develops episodes of transcendent moral horror...