Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country whose reputation for being dull is only exceeded by its own schizophrenic sense of self, Trudeau became the alter ego--the seducer and inevitable misleader. He played on the nation's vanity and dour self-image, making Ottawa--the greyest of places--a momentary Camelot. Canada wanted a performer and found one in this brilliant intellectual star. But inflation surged, the dollar plummeted, and Trudeau's light faded...
...paint on the canvas looks sluggish and frozen, like cake icing. (In the early '60s, Morley did put the pigment on with icing nozzles.) Its dull turbulence parodies the violence implicit in expressionist paint handling. The heavy brush stroke is no longer an index of earnestness; it quotes strong feeling without necessarily endorsing it. Morley's blend of coolness and violence has some of the hypnotic impact of early Warhol. But it is far more complicated and nuanced, and it is free from overtones of chic...
...pity we've been born before our time. In a few hundred ears incest will be as common as ditch water and as dull. too. You see, when they first started in breeding cattle, the Holy Marys said it was incest, that it was against God's law. But the farmers won the argument. They said that they were breeding best to the best, a good bull to his sister or even to his mother...
Director Howard Zieff paces the film well enough to avoid dull moments between situations. "In comedy," Zieff says, "You are recruiting some body who already has the talent and the facility of delivering. All you, as a director, have to know is what you want and how to express it...." In this case, Zieff gives Moore enough room to reveal a wide range of comic talents without turning the movie into an extended stand-up routine...
Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or undertone they can resonate to, but the script is so dull and the direction so lacking in dynamics that they are reduced to aimless noodling. The depression they feel in their bereft state will quickly communicate itself to any viewer...