Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Porky Pig a menace? Bob Goldman, a San Francisco food-service consultant, thinks so. Says Goldman, a stutterer: "The message of Porky Pig is that we are ridiculous and dull, and can't get a sentence out right...
...achieved. No flashy techniques distinguish the lighting scheme. Another minor criticism can be directed at the music--the same fragment of a song is heard between each and every scene as well as before the show, and by the third or fourth time this recurring theme begins to dull...
...Particulars" reads like a behaviorist lab study; in comprehensive, scientific narrative, Skinner recounts every small detail of his youth. What is amazing is how much the aging Skinner is able to remember about those long-gone days; but what is sometimes a little dull is the tininess of the details...
...murder story M. stands in tribute to the visual sweep and eloquence of silent film. Lang and Lubitsch made the German film industry in the 1920's the most technically brilliant and intellectually stimulating of any in the world; Lang's later Hollywood efforts were mostly cliched and dull. The movie stars the young Peter Lorre, not the simpering caricature of the Bogart films, but Lorre when he was young an thin, and very pale, and very convincing as a psychopath who murders children. The scene where a young girl is murdered and the camera cuts to the girl...
...escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London, but they are usually happy to stay at home, playing tennis, clearing the land or feeding their turkeys and chickens. "Country life," he says, "is very consuming...