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...film. His ability to find drama in the way a cup of coffee is handled, in the briefest play of emotions across the troubled face of a reluctant informer, is remarkable and invaluable in preventing the film from being no more than a historical record, a documentary in the dullest sense of the term. In fact, the entire Woodward-Bernstein relationship is built up not in the script (where Redford ordered it played down in favor of showing their procedures) but through fleeting exchanges of glances and gestures caught, as it were, out of the corner of an alert camera...
...Supreme Court puffed to the close of its term last week, legal observers noted that one of the longest regular sessions in history had also been one of the dullest. On the final day, for instance, the Justices ruled that defendants have the right to represent themselves without a lawyer if they wish and that border-patrol officers may not randomly stop cars away from border checkpoints to search for illegal aliens. If such cases did not add up to a banner year of decision making, court watchers were nonetheless fascinated by a potentially important change within the court...
...James Bond's screen debut, with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. According to Roy Solell, our Bond-expert, "It's one of the dullest movies ever made...Connery's face looks like it's been cut up into six different parts and then stitched back together again...he's a real walking shark, the most vapid sexist of all times...in trying to portray Bond as the master of style and elan he just comes off as if he were reading a cue card...Connery puts clumsiness back into violence." Ch. 5, 9 p.m., 2 hours...
...there any hope for the WFL when it starts with the centerpiece of the dullest football team ever created? Csonka the bulldozer was the instrument of this death by perfect execution. Would you pay $9 a game for a package of seven season and three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo...
...dullest political campaign in recent Cambridge history drags to a close this week as voters head to the polls Tuesday to select nine city councilors and six members of the school committee...