Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director Hal Ashby further jags the film with fade-out-overlap transitions, the idea being that everything is in transit, with close-ups of buses and trains, dolly shots galore. This is a self-conscious technique, particularly when the general look of the film is dull and formless. Even when you're trying to put across existential banality there's no reason to sacrifice style, but Ashby does. The prison-to-prison closedness of the action seemed to make the moviemakers shove messy details into the inbetween rather than shape new levels of meaning or regulate the rhythm. "Significant" background...
...always good to get out of that snakepit with a win. In fact it's always good to get out of that snakepit--as fast as possible. It's a dull ride back to Cambridge, but a stop at Salem's "Atomic Subs" (McDonalds was closed) can spice things up. And I do mean "spice...
LIKE HARVARD in general, life in the Houses has been pretty dull lately. For a while, halfway through reading period, people used to sit around and talk about exams. "How do your exams look?" one person would say. "My exams look fine," another would reply. "How do your exams look?" So it was probably a good idea for Dean Rosovsky to pop over to Lowell House last week and brighten things up by announcing that he was about to revolutionize education. "It is time to reestablish a consensus which will last another 20 years," Rosovsky proclaimed. Later that night. President...
Harvard's second-half comeback and the play of Steve Selinger and Tony Jenkins provided the only excitement in an otherwise dull game. A poorly played opening 20 minutes and a Princeton stall that closed the game helped to extinguish interest in the IAB crowd...
However, the one thing that can be safely said about Italians involved with organized crime is that they are mostly dull and stupid people. Movies such as "The Godfather" have glorified the life of criminals. Most criminals follow a dull routine which involves constant risks. Few of them read Sartre and Camus like Joey Gallo was reputed to have done; getting through the Daily News each day is a major accomplishment for most. Because of the code of violence they live under, people involved in organized crime does take and whatever businesses it is involved with...