Word: dulles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robin Berrington, outgoing U.S. embassy press attache in Ireland, in a letter that outraged the Irish when it accidentally found its way into the Irish Times: "Ireland has food and climate well matched for each other-dull. [As a post it is] small potatoes...
...Hugh Wheeler's book parcels out plot in neat bits of dialogue. With such a story-laden vehicle, tangential songs become tiresome; we yearn for songs with more plot in them. Sondheim and Wheeler sensed this tendency for Sweeney to drag and judiciously chopped out half of an appallingly dull number in moving the show from New York to Boston...
Those who came wished they had not. Harvard has played far worse games this season. But unlike the disasters at B.C. and RPI, there were no shining lights in the darkness, no surprises in the cracker jacks. Just dull, somnolent, uninspired hockey for sixty minutes, and when it had ended, the Crimson's eighth loss in its last nine games...
...Oncle opens with a close-up of a stoplight-red neon heart blinking ominously as Laborit's solemn, soothing voice intones "A being's only reason for being is being." The following sequence is more than a little dull and, at first, bewildering, as Resnais bombards us with shots of rocks, plants, frogs, and turtles while Laborit tells us that many living things do not need to move to live but that human beings do need to move to live. It seems that Laborit would prefer to have been born a daffodil, as he drones through a monologue that sounds...
...produce scallions the size of telephone poles, Link's daughter is defiled by a stone statue and the president goes quietly nuts. Mixed in with the infrequent stabs at humor (The Upper Gormese president tells Link: "We have everything a civilized country needs but a repressed minority.") are dull sequences, foolish jokes and a handful of racist portrayals. Back in the good ol' U.S.A., Link's advisers kill him off (well, not really) and the vice president (Bob Dishy) dies of a heart attack from the shock of becoming president...