Lerner is attempting to capture something that most conventional novels, with their cumbersome caravans of plot and scene and "conflict," fail to do: the drift of thought, the unmomentous passage of undramatic life.
Mr. Fairouz wrote the libretto, adapting it from the Hakim play, and in this first scene there are cumbersome dramatic stretches where the back story has to be filled in through overly detailed dialogue between the sisters.
Beyond the raids, much work is being done behind the scenes to simplify cumbersome tax processes and reduce what Mr. Di Capua called "tax evasion through frustration".
Neither the house nor the studio could accommodate the cumbersome equipment needed for interior filming, so all inside scenes were shot at the Bedford Armory.
To Stein, who staged the scenes herself, often transporting large and cumbersome taxidermied animals to specific locations, the images are about a kind of tension, the way that the worlds of the deer, bears, turkeys, and wolves brush up against that of the humans nearby.
He chose the 7D for its portability and the ease it provided for shooting improvised scenes, where he found other cameras too cumbersome.
This was a cumbersome system, however, and it was not until 1600 that efficient methods of scene changing could be devised.
The play also saddles Ken with some cumbersome dramatic luggage, including the obligatory Secret From His Past and a concluding scene that rounds off things a little too resonantly and expectedly.
Many enter at downtown stations that are mob scenes; to make everyone walk through sniffer machines would be incredibly cumbersome.
