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Word: dulles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stirling has drawn similar criticism for designing an excitingly vibrant entrance and a tremendously dull side and back...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Still Trying to Bridge the Gap | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

Stirling has drawn similar criticism for designing an excitingly vibrant entrance and a tremendously dull side and back...

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: It's Art--for the Sake of Art | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...problem is this: By tradition, the rabbi provides a little wine to the baby to dull the pain. (Steiner, eh? Perhaps you remember that a briss is not always a Jew's earliest happy memory.) The kid will not be 21 for many years, so can we have a small exception? --A Loving Rabbi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dull the Pain | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

...real comedy is supposed to occur when Maxie and Jan struggle for use of the body. When Close is boring and dull, we know that Jan is in control; when she is loud and obnoxious and talks like an odd synthesis of Mae West and Betty Boop, we know Maxie is in the driver's seat. There are some funnyish scenes when Maxie takes over at inopportune moments, like when Jan is at a society fundraiser, or when she is in bed with Nick, but her character is simply not interesting enough to keep these scenes alive...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Maxie Misses By a Mile | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Life can be dull in tiny Duchesne, Utah (pop. 1,800). The town has three churches and three bars, but the only movie theater is closed and Salt Lake City is almost 100 miles away. Duchesne's sole claim to fame is the nearby Central Utah Project, a federal irrigation program now ten years behind schedule and roughly $1 billion over its original $324 million budget. The 200 CUP employees and their families in Duchesne live in federal trailer camps and therefore pay no local property taxes. In lieu of tax payments, federal and local officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utah: Uncle Sam's Bowling Alley | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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