Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Details of most cases, in the words of one Justice official, are as "dull as dishwater," and just as dirty. Typically, a group of contractors interested in winning state or federal jobs meets at a motel shortly before a scheduled bid letting and agrees in advance which of their firms will submit the low bid on each of several projects. The others promise to turn in higher figures in return for like arrangements on "their" jobs. Sometimes payoffs beyond these so-called complimentary bids are involved, as was the case with two former officials of Ashland-Warren, Inc., an Atlanta...
...peculiarly busy performance. As in The Jazz Singer, in which he played the cantor, he seems to have stepped right out of the "oy vay" school of acting. Although he is not helped by dialogue that circles repetitively over the same terrain, his shrieking and spluttering become dull and annoying; he turns a simple character into a simple-minded one. By contrast, Gleason, the king of comedic excess, is a model of restraint as the spiffy Mr. Johnson. The two men's budding fondness for each other feels forced...
Broadcast journalism, which tends to be ponderous, pedagogical and visually dull, has less influence in West Germany than in the U.S. But it, too, is often outspokenly hostile to America. French Television Correspondent Michel Meyer reported in a study for the Aspen Institute, a U.S.-based nonprofit research center, that in almost two months of intensive viewing of West German television in late 1981, he "did not see a single broadcast that could be called positive or friendly toward the U.S., but numerous critical programs...
...good pilot will point out quickly that adventures are precisely what you do not want to have in the air, and Don Taylor's flight across the North Pole this summer was gratifyingly dull. Taylor, 64, is a former World War II fighter pilot who built his tiny, all-metal experimental plane several years ago from a plan by retired Aircraft Designer John Thorp. He flew around the world in the little ship, which weighs 1,500 lbs. empty and has a wingspan of 21 ft. 11 in., and set a number of speed and distance records. He decided...
...locker room as a group of huge football players are about to give themselves a ritual champagne shower after a winning game. "Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw. "This is Paul Masson champagne." Holding a bottle close to one dull-looking jock, he asks, "Can you read?" "Vintage 1980," the (cowed) player replies. "Remarkable," responds Gielgud with good-natured sarcasm...