Word: overlong
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...DIFFICULT TO call agitprop against South Africa hard-hitting; how many pro-apartheid plays get mounted in the U.S.? But THE SONG OF JACOB ZULU, which Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe brought to Broadway last week, redeems its overlong preachments with Eric Simonson's deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland...
...fault is not all Harlan's though. The production is crippled from the beginning by a meandering, esoteric, overlong script. And Cabranes-Grant's direction--what little is apparent in the performance--doesn't make Creditors more interesting or understandable. As the play winds on, it becomes harder and harder even to care what happens to the love triangle...
...truth of Fielding's novel lie within the actions of these rough-edged characters and the primitive land on which they live. Richardson knew this and knew the importance of resisting the temptation to fill the movie with a dramatic, booming, 32-piece soundtrack and wide, overlong images of the sun setting over the fields and horses of rural England. Instead, he stayed small, as did Fielding more than two centuries earlier...
Swoosh, a readable if overlong history of Nike, follows the familiar trajectory of entrepreneurial success. A group of hell-raising, antiauthority types have a dream. (The Nike founders called their annual meetings Buttfaces, engaged in food fights and gleefully refused to give one another corporate titles.) The dream succeeds beyond their imaginings, and the small revolutionary company becomes a large and conservative one. Even now that Nike is a corporate giant, it still fosters the image of irreverent hipness with its striking advertising and superstar endorsers: the magical Michael Jordan, the bodacious Bo Jackson and those rebels with racquets, John...
...months in the singeing sun of Jordan, Morocco and Spain. It had an obscure actor in the title role and no speaking parts for women. When it opened in New York City during the 1962 newspaper strike, one of the film's few reviewers, Andrew Sarris, called it "dull, overlong and coldly impersonal . . . hatefully calculating and condescending...