Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only D-plus-19 when the Americans rolled into Lyons, France's dull, straight-laced third city (pop.580,000), long the world's silk capital. There was no telling how far beyond the city advance guards had penetrated, no telling how far beyond that the Maquis were solidly at work. The Nineteenth was kaput...
...mixture of deplorable characters and homiletic essays is deliberately artificial, packed with wit, rarely dull. Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...
...dull for English teachers, and if you don't believe it, consider, one Freshman instructor's collection of such sage observations as one rookie's "facts is what compromises a law book," and another's eloquent assertion in his English A theme that "the greatest contentment a young doctor can have is to give birth to his first baby...
...Skeffington" could well be titled "Mrs. Skeffington." The powerful theme that overshadows occasionally dull moments and makes the movie outstanding revolves around Fanny her intense pro-occupation with personal beauty, blotting out her true nature even to herself. The desperate struggle to carry beauty into old age is touching cinema, get in an early twentieth-century atmosphere with a compelling, heavy, suspenseful tone. The mood is tense, the effect like a fizzling fuse of dynamite...
...only thing dull about Resisting Enemy Interrogation is its title. This latest instructional product of the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit is as much of a success in its own spy-thriller class as the FMPU's famed Technicolor documentary Memphis Belle (TIME, April...