Word: dull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what little boys and girls do at five in the morning when Papa is asleep, it is generally sophisticated or moral. Debut attempts, and fails, to be the former, and has a careless disregard for the latter. The result is an innocuous bit of piddle, diffuse in conception and dull in execution...
...second period was actually the only well-played part of an otherwise dull game. The sharp passing and good play making that featured the varsity's 10-1 slaughter of Dartmouth last Saturday seemed to be missing in the first and last periods. In the first, particularly, the var- sity was unable to organize and clear the puck out of its own zone...
Telecasts begin at 7 p.m., with a 20-minute children's program featuring a plump woman in a peasant dress who sits in a chair telling a fairy story. Despite the dull camerawork, says Schorr, "she was a good actress and told the story warmly and simply." Next, in Schorr's monitoring, came an excerpt from a play called Red Clouds. The plot: a young man is torn between the revolutionary fervor of 1905 and the pious exhortations of his father, an Orthodox priest; he breaks away from the "evil influence of religion," curses his father, goes...
...entirely different role, as the mentally torn major, Richard Kiley does an equally excellent job. With an electric tension displayed even in the curve of his back, he reveals his intense inner preoccupation, while his voice has the dull quality of a man despairing and confused. Here again, the playwrights achieve a real triumph in the development of a character, for there is an implication that the major is motivated not only by heroism plain and simple, but by war-guilt which has gradually caused him to adopt a savior complex. Although somewhat less subtle psychologically, Thomas Carlin's rendition...
...writing concerning the showing of a film short on "Love and Kinsey," which makes marital fidelity seem old-fashioned, bourgeois, and dull...