Word: boredome
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...Director Guy Hamilton decided to take the task of creating America's newest hero a little too seriously, and any yucks are interrupted by painfully long periods of boredom. If Hamilton knew what an American hero was, at least there would be a sufficient amount of fighting and wise-ass remarks to keep the movie rolling...
...cousin of the twitching, fluttering profiles in Giacometti. But it is the density of the paint that anchors the image every time. It gives the surface a rich, fiesty eventfulness. It makes one feel the subtle breaks in an array of cakes or cold-cream jars, rather than the boredom lurking in their repetition...
Sears is especially funny as the Bumiller siblings, a trio of screwed up adolescents whose main problem is boredom; there's Stanley, the reform school dropout, Jody, patron of the stray-puppy population, and their overweight sister Charlene, who's life is ruined because she'll never make cheerleader. The two-man show offers up some great lines, like when Mrs. Bumiller tries to offer the usual motherly consolation "wait until next year" to her depressed daughter, and Charlene points out that she's already a senior. The duo earned their three ovations opening night with their flawless...
...fast-paced first act, the second half becomes weighed down in soul-searching soliloquies, a last try at serious reflection that comes too late in the show. Otherwise Greater Tuna's frank attitude that life is dull only if you think about it serves up raucous relief from postmodern boredom...
...have tried a number of things to combat the all-encompassing boredom which attacks the mind, such as thinking up novels or trying to unlock the primordial secrets of my brain through meditation, but such things usually resulted in stapling my hand to something or accidentally working through lunch...