Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smart family matures in true harmony, Ozzie and Harriet and David and Ricky aside. How dull it would be anyway. Nonetheless, to pull off such a celebration with any degree of grace-to say nothing of respect for the 80-year-old-differences, deeply divisive differences, would have to be set aside for the duration. No one had put a voice to this consideration, yet everyone had thought it through. The insect-humming Pennsylvania countryside would not become an arena. At least this once, one could hold one's tongue...
...home town is so dull," goes the old gag, "that for excitement everybody goes down to McDonald's to watch the numbers on the sign change." McDonald's in recent years has been selling hamburgers so fast (140 per sec.) that many golden-arched signs state simply: BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SOLD. But that does not mean that McDonald's has lost count. Indeed, the Illinois-based company (1983 sales: $3.1 billion) disclosed last week that it will sell its 50 billionth hamburger some time late this month or in early November. The tally goes back...
Serling is one of the dozens of television pioneers who did their best work before the advent of color TV. Like the great black-and-white films of the '30s and '40s, TV series from the early '50s can seem faded and dull to viewers accustomed to color. Now computer technology offers a way to revise cinematic history. Two firms, Colorization of Toronto and Color Systems Technology of Los Angeles, have independently devised methods for turning black-and-white reels from the golden ages of television and Hollywood into so-called colorized videocassettes...
...boring aspects." The Los Angeles Times's Paul Conrad says, "I'd like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these days." Peters finds Mondale an "extremely nice guy, but he's dull. I'm probably going to vote for him, but for a cartoonist Nixon or Reagan makes life a lot easier...
...biases and constantly interview their own reactions, but they don't often let a rigid partisanship keep them from a clever idea that will express a public mood. Undoctrinaire iconoclasm is their style. They think more in metaphors than in arguments and don't want to dull a witty simplicity with a weighty qualification. Peters says, "We've been drawing all our lives. We were thrown out of school for drawing the principal. Now we're drawing Presidents...