Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon the loons of the north country will begin to change color. All summer they have been got up gorgeously, like pool-hall hustlers. The back, a tessellation of white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray, pale white. The neckbands−brilliant, symmetrical hash marks−will disappear. And so will the loons. Put a telescope on the beaches of North Carolina, or Florida, aim it out to the three-mile marker, near the sea lanes, and there the loons will be, riding the water...
...much valued in our age," Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...
...expose themselves as assume a role. But the masks they choose are also revealing. Rebecca West, an actress in her youth, plays her interview like Dame Edith Evans doing a scene from Oscar Wilde ("You know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...
...politicians to so bare themselves publicly? If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. This is not to say that our current politics does not attract such characters, only that it still manages to attract others as well...
...soldiers of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, stationed in the strategic Fulda Gap near the border between East and West Germany, life in uniform has never been easy. Most towns in the area are small, provincial and often dull. East German and Soviet border patrols are a constant presence. Above all, the American servicemen at Fulda are aware that the 30-mile gap is a likely invasion route in the event of a conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact...