Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, IN DEPICTING the dulling of Laschen's senses, the film itself becomes dull. After the initial horror wears off, unrelenting violence is boring. Hardened to atrocity along with the protagonist, the viewer is forced to become amoral in order to empathize. Nothing is less satisfying. The film attaches no...
Perhaps because Ronald Reagan doesn't read all that much, he cares more about what television shows than what print says. He and television both know that facts are heavy, arguments confusing, charts boring; to grab the biggest audience, give your story the human touch. This is "for-example...
Belushi kept insisting that it was all just an act. "If people want to think that I'm a drug-crazed anarchist and it brings them into the theaters, that's fine," he said in 1980. "Actually, I'm a pretty boring guy most of the time...
Some may complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and...
Shoot the Moon is an adequate mirror of our times--but not much more. It tells us little about ourselves that we have not been told before. At least it offers no easy answers. But its topicality limits it, and its very timeliness will soon date it. It is among...