Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just to keep things from getting dull, Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis sailed his 325-ft. pleasure palace, the Christina, to Jackie's whitewashed villa and put the yacht at her disposal. Jackie had no trouble finding uses for it. She threw a dinner party and a midnight shipboard dance for eleven guests, among them the Radziwills, Owner Onassis and Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was in Greece to discuss trade matters with local officials. While the guests slept that night, the Christina, loaded with fresh peaches, black figs and pomegranates, and decorated from stem...
Wilson almost never attends a play or a concert, confesses to feeling "guilty" if he wastes even a few weekend hours on a novel. Sighs an old acquaintance: "He's dull and devious-God, how devious-diligent and deliberate. He hasn't got a principle in his head, except that to him the Labor Party is the ark and its policy Holy Writ...
Like Snow White after she was kissed by Prince Charming, the Harvard offense suddenly rejoined the living late in the third period Saturday when Rutgers safety man Chester Ward graciously fumbled a punt on his own 24. A dull, bruising stand-off was quickly turned into a rout and the Crimson scored three times within 12 minutes to crush the Scarlet Knights...
...Special Session. It will land with a dull thud on the party circuit. Word soon leaked that the report contains no suggestion that any ministers save Jack Profumo had been flagrantly indiscreet, or that the former Secretary for War had been guilty of any breach of security. However, the report was expected to criticize Macmillan's government for its failure to act in the Profumo case for more than a year after security agents were aware that the War Secretary was sharing Christine Keeler's favors with Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov. This aspect of the case...
...reviewer is that "I try to find meaning behind appearance, which means that I sometimes do an injustice to a film." While he may at times seem to etch his phrases in acid, he says that "I only make word plays when I'm reviewing a film so dull that there is nothing worth saying about it except in the form of word plays...