Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the Vegas Strip, there are no clocks to worry the gambler about the passing hours, and fur shops stay open until 3 a.m. (a big winner might be in the mood to buy), but it would all get pretty dull without the shows. To hold the customers' attention, the gaudy hotel nightclubs rely on big old names (Sinatra, Dietrich, Tucker), but they also reach out for newcomers. Last week new acts got a big play in the neon-painted desert...
...Serenade en la (1925) is not Stravinsky at his best. It has a number of very haunting places; but there are some dull stretches that the proper self-criticism would have eliminated or rewritten. Archibald gave its four movements a clear and clean performance, with very little pedal...
...Five Pennies (Dena; Paramount). The basic trouble with movie biographies of famed jazz musicians is that the camera is not a horn. What matters about the average music man is the music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have...
...liked your June 22 story, "Rubbernecking in Russia," since I returned on June 10 from 15 days on the first American bus tour in Russia. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay, and I take exception to "the food is heavy and generally dull." At all times, I liked the Russian food; it was always different, and rather exciting as you never knew what, when or how long it took to be served. We had eggs, fish, cheese, etc. for breakfast...
...office in droves, and newspapers run regular casualty lists, stating name, rank, misdemeanor and punishment. New Chevrolets, once a man's conspicuous mark of distinction in Karachi streets, are now hidden away in garages, and one businessman even painted his fire-engine-red station wagon a dull grey, happy to have it no longer "an eye-catcher." A strolling policeman no longer accepts the gratuitous glass of iced sherbet from the street vendor, under pain of prosecution for them both if he does. Office "peons" no longer demand "tea money" for leading callers to officials. Karachi's once...