Word: boredome
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...Cheat An Honest Man," a flat script gives Charlie McCarthy's petrified personality very little chance to stir the audience from its boredom...
...raising children? To find out, Professor Ernest Osborne of Columbia University's Teachers College and a staff of WPA researchers polled 75,000 parents. They learned that parents were puzzled by such problems as children's tardiness, indifferent eating, reactions to bad movies, need of sex education, boredom during summer vacations, tendencies to jealousy and lying. Last week Dr. Osborne began to distribute a series of mimeographed pamphlets (price: 1? each) advising parents how to solve all these problems. Some Osborne pointers...
...dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important and become two of the most memorable personages who have ever come to life upon a strip of celluloid...
Compared to the boredom induced by the super-patriotic outbursts of the major feature, "Ambush" is entertaining. Unlike "Wings" it does contain some acting, and although the plot is unoriginal, at least it moves quickly enough to maintain interest. Popeye steals the show...
...revolutionary fanaticism, a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely instruments in a historical process. But Danton's Death is just as undramatic as it is indecisive. Fatalistic, Hamletesque Danton, bogged in procrastination and boredom, shouts back at Robespierre but never fights back. Everybody shouts, nobody fights. The play consists of great gobs of 19th-Century rhetoric; it could do much better with a little 20th-century suspense...