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Friday night: For a town "under seige" by protesters planning to occupy a nuclear plant in five hours, Seabrook looks pretty dull--very dull, in fact. A steady drizzle replaces the afternoon's thick mist falling on Seabrook police car number 23. Through the treetops, red airplane warning lights shine on the cranes that just into the eastern sky from the construction site. The cranes are still now, and the only visible activity is at Dunkin' Donuts across the street, where a scraggly crowd orders crullers and coffee...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Occupation That Got Away | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

Nimoy asserts in "Vincent" that Van Gogh's problems stemmed from epilepsy, not madness. Nimoy said Sunday people commonly believe Van Gogh was mad because "madness is romantic. Epilepsy is dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leonard Nimoy Speaks With Students About His Boston Production 'Vincent' | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...Office. He saw no reason to treat foreigners with any greater tenderness. He believed that in the final analysis countries yield only to pressure; he had no faith in consultations except from a position of superior strength. His presence guaranteed that the economic dialogue with Europe would not be dull; it also ensured that the European contribution would have to be something more solid than ritual incantations of good will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: John Connally | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...rate of $2.95 an hour. "I don't like the work, which is dull and boring," he says, "but on my salary I have been able to marry, rent a small apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Macho Mood | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Here, too, Wambaugh continues to me ander. He is unable to solve the problem of compressing seven dull years into a coherent, suspenseful story, possibly because he, and Actor Savage, cannot find a way to turn Hettinger into a sympathetic person, or even an articulate one. The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Policeman's Lot | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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