Word: duller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...numerous confrontation scenes between the mad sisters and their employers get duller and duller. Papatakis has great difficulty in creating bourgeois characters without letting them become absolute fools. When the master or the mistress deliver long homilies on respectability, the audience can only laugh. As a result, the pity and blame are not equally balanced between the family and the sisters, and the emotional conflict inherent in the situation is sacrificed to pure sensationalism. Our sympathies do go out to these characters despite the structure of the film, but we must still leave the theatre with the feeling that...
...nonfiction, which was generally more distinguished, it was indisputably the Year of the Kennedys in which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. with his A Thousand Days made an art form out of instant history. Not too far behind-and duller because more self-consciously definitive-was Ted Sorensen's Kennedy. But for every excellent Kennedy book, there were at least seven sloppily sentimental ones, and the surfeit went so far that Monocle magazine's Victor Navasky struck home with his satirical suggestion for a brand-new title: "Taxi to Greatness, the story of the cab driver who drove young John...
SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfred Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
...Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares. In the end he returns to the suburbs, his wife returns to him, and they both settle down resignedly to cultivate a sense of irony...