Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After intense preparation, Reagan holds a "dull" news conference -- but that was what he wanted. -- Deaver is indicted for perjury...
...Bowl kickoff. Then the President strode into the East Room of the White House and put on the kind of performance that is common enough in a real Super Bowl but quite rare for Reagan. He triumphed, as Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming approvingly put it, by being "dull...
None of these forgetable films, though, are quite as bad as Heat, an impossibly dull plod through the Vegas underworld. Reynolds--transformed into a Mexican by the careful application of some Ultra-Tan Lotion--stars as Nick Escalante, professional chaperone and "master of edged weapons." Even after chewing on it for three days, I cannot think of word scathing enough to describe Reynolds' somnabulatory performance. He's so wooden that you want to build an addition out of him. He stumbles through the moronic plot like the newly-resurrected, his face frozen into a tanned grimace, with not a single...
...four-hour lecture, full of piping lore and the illustrative invocation of legendary figures. "Now, Willie Clancy's playing had a lot of raw energy. He liked to bite every note with sharp teeth -- or maybe even with dull teeth, so it would cut even rougher. Liam O'Flynn, on the other hand, prefers to play a tune refined to the ultimate, with the least possible moral disturbance." In the course of the afternoon we learn the pipes were born sometime in the 18th century; the reason, say some, was that the British banned the playing of the war pipes...
Bush is also well known for wearing glasses. The reasons for this are unclear; although they make him look wonky and dull, they may prevent bullies from hitting him in the face...