Word: duller
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...solid gift for getting a story told. But the company he guided was uneven and, worse, unsubtle. There were almost no quiet moments of insight into the characters' souls. It would be hard to imagine better, more accessible productions for audiences seeing the plays for the first time or duller, more disappointing ones for playgoers who know the texts well. Perhaps that is why reviewers tended to be regretful while audiences in Los Angeles, which does not have much of a Shakespeare tradition, chortled and cheered...
...about him is his hair, which he dyed an orange shade of red five years ago to update his haggard look for a brief run for the presidency. For a while it looked as if Cranston might lose his seat in 1986, but that will take someone a lot duller than challenger Ed Zschau, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who believes in memory chips and the Pacific...
Putting out the garbage is one of life's duller necessities. Last week that boring chore became a bit riskier. By a 6-to-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police may freely rummage through ordinary household trash left at curbside without obtaining a search warrant. The decision was welcomed by the law-enforcement community, which has learned that garbage contains a lot of incriminating ingredients, but it upset civil libertarians. They read the opinion as a tightening of the judicial noose around the already embattled right of personal privacy...
...movie is shot in black and white. That's a strange choice for a comedy, because black and white films seem drier and duller than technicolor. It's an even stranger choice for a first time director like Prince. In black and white there's nowhere to hide--you have to get the staging just right, the shadows to fall just so. Since there's less to confuse the eye and the mind, the viewer can really concentrate on the aesthetic qualities of the movie...
...Eighth Congressional District race shows few signs of relaxing in these traditionally duller summer months. The race has grown hotter and dirtier between King and Bachrach, as each strives to capture a majority of the Democrats who oppose Kennedy...