Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives him permission, a sexy mother-in-law, an officious low comedy father-in-law. To the very evident amusement of its spectators and the disgust of Manhattan critics, the show's dull bawdry continues until innocence melts impatiently into voluptuousness, takes restrained venery by storm...
With the autumnal equinox safely past, art dealers all over the U. S. were taking down their shutters last week preparing for a new season. As guarantee that the season will not be a dull one Walter Pach ended a voluntary three-year exile in Paris, rented a studio in New York, announced a series of lectures at the Art Students' League...
...Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past. Joan Crawford works hard but looks too wholesome and collegiate to suit the part. The basic trouble really is that Rain is presented as a classic, not as the 10-20-30 melodrama of popping sex and fanaticism that Maugham wrote. Typical shot: a closeup...
...Press. Still deadly serious, full of dull statistics and clarion shouts for the Five-Year Plan are Russian newspapers. But not long ago a leading Soviet editor rebelled, told the Kremlin privately but passionately that there must be more human interest, fewer statistics and less propaganda in his newspaper. Instanter the editor got the sack, was expelled from the Party. But his advice is being deeply pondered. Already a change looms, and some human interest has crept into Mos cow's Evening News, which even good Party members are reading more avidly than the dry-as-dust Pravda or Izvestia...
BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA?Claude G. Bowers?H ought on Mifflin ($5). A dull biography of a second-rate great man. Literary Guild choice for September...