Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The simultaneously high and low points involve hitting the dirt: at the southern end of the airport compound, snipers are as close as 150 yds., and incoming grenades and light rockets occasionally fall near by. At night it is cool and damp. The lush sound of the Mediterranean surf is...
The same wasteland set directs all attention to the actors, who usually cannot handle the responsibility. This is not entirely their fault: Sellars, whose theatrical forte is opera, directs them in a stagnant, grandiose style which quickly overdoes it, as in a knights' dance which starts amusingly and continues until...
"They add a certain element of liveliness," adds Alan B. Langerman '85, explaining. "College students are boring--they talk, they tap on glasses. Little kids come running into the dining hall and they're exciting and fun to watch."
Stella received critical acclaim for his minimalist paintings after he moved to New York. Reaction from critics to his highly simplistic, geometric paintings has ranged from the New York Herald Tribune calling Stella's early work "unspeakably boring" to Robert Hughes of Time magazine referring to a 1978 exhibit as...
And, no matter the outcome, the world is in Australia's debt for transforming what had become a boring parody of competition into a tingling cliffhanger of sport. The brilliant designer Ben Lexcen was wrong in one respect. Before the first race of the finals, he declared, "If we...