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...Vice President into words that soar. "Government is words," says Noonan. "Thoughts are reduced to paper for speeches which become policy. Poetry has everything to do with speeches -- cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep, a knowledge that words are magic, that words like children have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Of Poets and Word Processors | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...number of New York State legal experts said Merola and his assistant Bookin simply failed to substantiate their charges. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch: "The general feeling is that this is one of the dullest, longest and least persuasive presentations ever made." Joy Fennel, a juror who says she once leaned toward conviction, agrees: "I was frustrated the D.A. didn't do a better job." Several jurors also indicated sympathy with a defense contention that Merola, a Democrat, brought the charges just before the 1984 election in a politically motivated attempt to embarrass the Reagan Administration. Countered Merola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me Back My Reputation! | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Brown might be the dullest color in the rainbow. Except brown isn't even in the rainbow...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Escape Bruins' Lair, 3-2 | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

...years people have been saying that the Academy Awards ceremony is the dullest, as well as the longest, show on earth. This year the producers took note. Faced with tumbling TV ratings, they trimmed the production to a svelte 3 hr. 9 min. (37 minutes less than 1984), banned long speeches and jazzed up the musical numbers. As a result, they met half their goal: this year's ceremony was not one of the world's longest shows. But except for the introduction of a beguiling elephant--symbol of A Passage to India --it was still one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Eight Cheers for the Music Man | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...remark may have been ill advised. Nevertheless, even the dullest-witted reporter would have known that it was a joke and its publication could only create mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1984 | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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