Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Ridley, who last visited Shanghai in 1946, three years before the Communists took over: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared . . . There is no laughter in the streets as there used to be, and strangers are not now greeted with smiles and shouts in the villages. Instead, drab, dull apathy has settled over everyone and horrible uniformity is the order...
...Lawrence and His Brothers, a massive volume of letters, written mostly by Lawrence of Arabia to his parents. They are not "great" letters-in fact, many are unspeakably dull. They are of interest today because they bring momentarily to life the principal ghosts of the lamented...
...most Americans, Government statistics are meaningless, dust-dry columns of astronomical figures printed in small type in dull pamphlets. Few citizens actually read the figures, but not one is unaffected by them...
...while his fear of reprisal and the herd-honor speak more strongly than his love for the girl and the first dull prickings of conscience. Then one night he finds his own big brother (Rod Steiger), the legal lieutenant of the union boss, dead in an alley because he stood up for junior. And so the ways are greased that send the picture sliding into a blood bath of the sort moviegoers will be wiping off their memories for days...
...George Leslie (Robert Ryan). He invited her to go with him to California for a six-week vacation, and she did. She went for a good many years after that, too, and gave him "peace and contentment." Unfortunately, what George likes may seem to most moviegoers like the long, dull evenings at home that movies are supposed to relieve...