Word: duds
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...work excavating gravel from a water-filled pit in Kent, England last week, a workman felt his scoop hit an obstacle. He gave it an extra pull, and near fainted from fright: up came a 1,100-lb. bomb, a German dud from World War II. Within minutes, the Royal Engineers' Bomb Disposal Unit at Horsham, Sussex was racing to the rescue. A few hours later, all was clear again. The bomb was expertly defused and trucked off to a bomb graveyard where the explosive filling could be steamed out in safety -at least for Kent's homeowners...
...member of Edwardian London's Drones Club to consult Webster's Dictionary rather than the Oxford. Victorian and Edwardian euphemisms such as "bally" and "ruddy" work their way into the tale of a British knight who once "allowed some hornswoggling highbinder to stick him with . . . dud Smelly River Ordinaries"*-and, of course, there are the usual Wodehousian references to or quotations from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Lord Tennyson and Publishers Knopf, Holt, Doubleday, Simon & Schuster-all balled up together...
Fast editing is about the most notable element in the second-part of the Brattle's double bill. Unfortunately the cutting is done by somebody who had a lot of good ideas, but little taste. But what makes The Age of Infidelity a total dud is that the plot is as slow as the scene-switching is fast...
...Harrow has lost all his money backing a dud play. He is aging, unsure of his talent, confused about life's meanings. Rhoda offers to come back, to get him out of his financial jam. But Tom knows when he has reached the point of no return. The novel's last line sounds like a Marquand parody: "In the end, no matter how many were in the car, you always drove alone...
...past season was a dud," asks Variety, "what will the next season be like?" Answer: awful...