Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills around Floresville (pop. 2,126) projected gentle arcs of tans and greys against the blue sky. Most of the dull-colored range grass lay dormant, the landscape enlivened only by the greenery of prickly pear cactus. But on the 4,500-acre Connally family spread, the cactus had been routed, mesquite trees dragged out by chain, the land plowed deep, and a lush cover of coastal Bermuda grass planted. "Five years ago, there was nothing here, nothing at all," said Connally. "The land had been all but given up for hopeless. Now it will support up to ten times...
...Peter Brook (Lord of the Flies). Surprisingly, it seems an authentic French movie; unhappily, it is not a very good one. Based on a novel by Marguerite Duras, Moderate retells the sad tale of Flaubert's Emma Bovary as a contemporary case. Poor Emma. She always was a dull little dame, but in 1857 she at least made a social point...
What precedes is unbelievably dull. And what follows is worse. But right in the middle of Broadway's The Girl Who Came to Supper there is a scene that stops the cold show-and for at least a full minute the audience regularly whistles and bravos and claps itself silly for a 208-pound actress named Tessie O'Shea...
...Some detractors say the News got there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything in the lively, abbreviated style suitable to someone being jolted underground from The Bronx to midtown. The Times and other papers might well take further lessons from News editorials, which are usually short, sometimes outrageous, but always understandable. The News...
...comic. The party is over before the picture is over. The spectator lifts the last glass of champagne to his lips and finds it full of blood: the blood of a decent, bewildered boy who does not understand that every man must live his own life, no matter how dull it may sometimes seem; who does not understand that the easy life is essentially an easy death...