Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually rated diligent but dull, Hugh Dalton blushed when the House cheered him last week. Tories were relieved. Bankers beamed. Even Lord Catto, certain that his bank would soon be taken over by the new Government, was not shocked. Britain's new budget was a good, middle-of-the-road job. Next day, prices rose on London's stockmarket...
...Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess, just back from his four-year exile in Britain, professed a dull indifference to everything, seemed to be preparing to plead insanity...
This, and all the other discrepancies in "Rhapsody in Blue," would not particularly matter except to the Gershwin purist if the result had been a good movie. But it is dull without being realistic grandiose without being epic, and emotional without having any feeling. Even the musical numbers are not well produced, the dancing being particularly uninspired. Exceptions were the fine performances of the major works, including the "Rhapsody in Blue," the "American in Paris," and the "Concerto in F," this last chopped up and presented in sections throughout the film. Oscar Levant and Paul Whiteman (who play themselves...
Even with official propaganda, apparently limitless funds and control of the labor unions, the Government had found it difficult to promote a country-wide organization behind Dutra. Reasons: 1) state pride, 2) apathy toward dull Candidate Dutra, 3) the hot weather. But now that state governors were to fight for their own political lives on Dec. 2, they would have to roll up their sleeves, rally town mayors, dogcatchers and other local officials behind the Government cause...
...such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...