Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emphasizes the importance of entertainment, saying. "If you're dull, uninspired and conventional, then you're going to be walk." But he adamantly asserts that his histrionics do not subvert his seriousness, particularly when Harvard surfaces as the topic of discussion. For conventional student government is "not befitting of Harvard, Harvard requires a creativity, a higher sensibility, a greater awareness of the moment, a sense of destiny. "Evans says, his voice heightening in intensity and volume...
...erif Gören, his assistant, who then realized Güney's film plan. Perhaps because of this long-distance arrangement, Yol possesses a clarity of imagery and an editorial crispness not evident in Güney's other films. It is dour but never dull; it proceeds with an assurance born of passion and technical expertise. The picture may thus serve as the announcement of an adroit new director in Gören, a canny marshaler of film machinery and actors' resources. But first and final credit must go to Güney. Time spent...
...nature and then shift gears into romantic apostrophe. It's as if Axinn grew bored with the berries and nuts and scrambled for a new theme to revitalize the poem before it flopped. He twists his words and superimposes one theme over another to prevent the poems from becoming dull. Axinn introduces the poem "Appointment in Samara" with an explanatory story...
...choice of subject matter is truly clever, and the vast resources of imagery almost prevent the poems from becoming dull...
...times, Wilkins sounds like a Pollyannaish sitcom mom, regaling readers with the pleasures of life without TV. It might just be that many TV-liberated adults would fail to make profitable use of their new free hours and indeed find life unendurably dull without their daily electronic fix. Released from the video cocoon, children will not necessarily emerge as articulate and considerate, scoring perfect 800s on their SATs. In fact, television in small doses may enhance learning and understanding. A study conducted by the California state department of education revealed that although students who watched The Dukes of Hazzard scored...