Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
...hottest days in midsummer there will probably be fewer dull setting-up exercises and more of such games as volley ball. In general the summer program will be more flexible than this spring with many of the present rough spots ironed...
...film is actually just a vehicle for every trick of camera and color, every bluff of gargantuan settings, every cliche of plot and dialogue in DeMille's too familiar repertoire. "Reap the Wild Wind" lacks even the barest spark of originality; it is slow, sticky and indescribably dull. Its possibilities as melodrama are almost completely submerged in an orgy of gross spectacle...
Faulkner is perhaps the most gifted of living U.S. writers. He can be as funny as Mark Twain, as exalted as Melville, as solid as Joyce and as dull as Dreiser; but he has never done a book which has the sure, sound permanence of any of these men. Go Down, Moses, like most of Faulkner, is brilliant and uneven. Its special value is its evocative (though local) exploration of the U.S. national source and dawn. In it is a sometimes merely yeasty, sometimes 100-proof sense of those powers and mysteries of land and the people on it which...
...those years Benny longingly hopes will return he studied at Northeastern and did odd jobs around Boston, which was his birthplace. At the end of the decade he landed a permanent position with the City as constable. Now, looking back, he tosses off this part of his life as dull and unsatisfying. But it was probably these same years that gave him his big start in getting to know the "higher ups," the power boys in the City, who serve Benny so faithfully to this day. The business bug got him, however, and after selling a profitable business that...