Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reader Walter Jowers [June 14] should know that we who sired his generation endured the Depression, worked our way through college (no Government loans then), served in at least one war, raised and educated large families (the Pill arrived a bit late for us), stuck to often dull and difficult jobs (nobody told us we should be dropping out, doing our own thing, and fulfilling our own needs), cared for our aging parents and paid into Social Security for 30 years. Now in our golden years, we are finding ourselves accused of greed and selfishness. What a deal, indeed...
...Little Richard and Co.--had faded; the Chicago blues of Muddy Waters mysteriously had never caught on. The Beatles hadn't broken yet. "Trad" (traditional) jazz was what the middle class dudes convinced themselves they enjoyed. It was a mushy, updated version of Dixieland, believe it or not--very dull, very smooth. "Trad" didn't suite Mick Jagger or his friends Keith Richards and Brian Jones...
...dull. I think getting out of debate has helped me do other things," she says. She has become an avid sports fan with cable television hookups that allow her to follow several baseball teams on a daily basis, and she counts a trip to Los Angeles to see Fernando Valenzuela pitch in the World Series as a highlight of her senior year...
Officials say they also hoped to make the second-year program more interesting for students, many of whom complain that the year is unproductive because the subject matter is often dull after the first year. The committee studying the second-year program stated that when second-year students were surveyed about the year, "the most commonly used adjective, by far, was 'boring.' Other often used words were 'routine' and 'repetitive'." Officials hope to diversify the program by increasing emphasis on independent study and "an explicit policy of facilitating experimentation, innovation and variety in the content and process of second year...
Simon's screenplay restricts the direction as well as the actions. Even the set design is bland and tiresome: the first father-daughter confrontation is filmed in an annoyingly dull light. The audience's attention is directed away from the screen and toward the repetitious soundtrack. Director Ross ignores the fact that film is a visual medium--more so than the stage on which I Ought to be in Pictures was originally performed: he seems to put his own work on a secondary level to the screenwriter's. This is not a Herbert Ross film: the opening credits...