Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the spring at that, almost anything could happen. Unfortunately, the wrong thing does Guinness is tripped up by a script which keeps him in the background and gives him too little to do. Not that the English comedian's flight to France and sophisticated comedy is entirely dull. The mere presence of the old master on the screen would be enough to keep any film from sinking into the grey depths of tedium. The main trouble with this one is that the audience gets an uncomfortable feeling that just out of camera range is a writer who worries more...
...Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage work since The Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though he has just noticed a dead horse under the sideboard, or is about to hear...
Despite its faults, The Drum is never dull. Always alive with some new piece of skullduggery, the picture moves quickly through that simpler age when Knives and rifles, not jet planes and propaganda leaflets, decided who would control Asia...
...Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick commanded the No. 1 fortress of personal, daily journalism in the U.S. He put the mark of his eccentric, sometimes pugnacious personality into every column of the Tribune. His skillful and intensely opinionated brand of newspapering might often be wrong, but it was never dull. Even those who violently disagreed with what the Trib said in its news and editorial columns candidly admitted that no one said it with more bounce and bite. In the 41 years that he ran the Trib, the Colonel turned it into one of the most readable newspapers...
...comfort for the loss of her"); others serve as a reminder that the real problem of life is in having to deal with other people ("You can do as you will with solitude. It does not take you on equal terms"). Some long stretches of these conversations are dull and empty; but pages upon pages of them are superbly funny and brilliantly revealing, until the reader finds reality in all the airy comedy, is ready to agree that "it is voicing things that makes them real...