Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insane commentator on the air because of his ratings--makes a film funnier than Eric Severaid. Faye Dunaway plays a programming executive who is without an ounce of compassion; William Holden plays a deposed news executive who gambles on her capacity for love--and loses. Holden is a little dull, but Dunaway and Peter Finch, the crazed commentator, manage to carry off the film's roller coaster ride of high-level network looniness." Well, as veterans of the Lincoln brigade might have said in response to Franco sympathizers during the Spanish Civil war: go to the front yourself...
Prior achieves such incredible detail with his photo-realistic technique that the observer is startled at times to realize that the works are actually done with paint and not a camera. But, the detail can become dull when it leaves no room for the imagination...
...Oliver IV renounces his decision to abandon the family fortune he rejected so endearingly. At last, Oliver knows who he is--a widowed capitalist returning to the fold after a brief fling with radical chic. The Harvard dream--or nightmare--comes true with a vengeance in this otherwise deadly dull book...
...Enquirer would allow other dailies to run their features at a flat annual rate in place of, or in addition to, their usual "dull" news stories, MacIntyre said...
...cosmetics. "As a child, I would make up my dolls, but they always came out looking terrible." Will her personality come across, as she hopes, in the new de Markoff campaign? "I don't want people to say, 'Well, she's pretty, but she's dull.' " Just say she's prospering...