Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lampoon nine's cackles of glee quickly gave way to a dull gloom as a long string of goose eggs went up on the big scoreboard. The heroic Crimeds chortled as the game turned into a joke, far better than any that have appeared in the Lampoon in recent memory...
UNFORTUNATELY, IN DEPICTING the dulling of Laschen's senses, the film itself becomes dull. After the initial horror wears off, unrelenting violence is boring. Hardened to atrocity along with the protagonist, the viewer is forced to become amoral in order to empathize. Nothing is less satisfying. The film attaches no guilt to apathy, creating a loss of sensation without sentiment for the loss. In providing the emotional exercise for the audience, Schlondorff's fatalistic approach to indifference falls flat...
...ESTABLISHED news media and much of their audience think they have the college students of 1982 all figured out. Obsessed with the future, and particularly career choices; increasingly apolitical; hung-up and generally dull--that's the portrait presented by The New York Times campus updates. At their most extreme, the makers of conventional wisdom insist that a wave of outright conservatism has washed over traditionally left-leaning East Coast schools, drowning the activists and the liberal skeptics under a sea of business school applications...
...which arguably cannot be lone wrong. Such a play, at least on the surface, is Lion in Winter, James Goldman's sparklingly written drama of the savage political and emotional infightings of a family of dazzling twelfth-century English monarchs. It would take a heavy directorial hand, indeed, to dull the brilliant salvos of dialogue that flash from member to member of the illustrious Plantagenets--Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, the future Richard Lionheart. Geoffrey Monmouth, and King John--as they vie for control of England's future. "I was torn from you by the midwife," the adolescent John cries...
...careers of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Besides shouldering this tradition and the morose routine of rejecting manuscripts, Nims, 68, has continued to teach, lecture, translate poems from a variety of tongues and edit anthologies. He has plenty of workaday excuses to be a dull boy. Yet The Kiss, the sixth collection of his own poetry, glitters with wit and erudite tomfoolery. Its 44 poems turn the act of puckering up into cerebrations whimsical and sensuous: "A poem: most like a kiss. A play of shapes/ that search, researching over the perfect shape/ to stop...