Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Women! (20th Century-Fox) is a dull consulting-room comedy, but a brilliant illustration of what is wrong with most jokes about psychoanalysis. People who have not laid themselves on the couch are hardly in a position to get the joke, while people who get up from it have generally lost their sense of humor on the subject. Nonetheless, Edward Chodorov's play had a startling success in Manhattan, where the largest group of U.S. psychoanalysts lives and practices-apparently as a sort of cut-rate abreaction for those who agree with Sam Goldwyn that "anybody who would...
...game was dull because the teams were so unevenly matched. To a man, the Crimson players could skate rings around any of the Tigers, with the exception of their fine forward, Henry Rulon-Miller. Unfortunately, the varsity realized this fact early in the game, and consequently did not put out as much as they could have. This fact accounted for some really poor hockey by both teams in the second and third periods...
...Harvard-Brown swimming meet is traditionally a dull affair. The Bruins seldom have much to offer in the way of swimming material, and Coach Ulen generally uses the meet to give his second-liners a chance at a letter...
...amusing scene. But on the whole, it both bogs down as a tale and goes out of bounds in the telling. Motherhood may or may not be sacred, but it cannot for three acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon...
...fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...