Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tastes of the woman who needs a new foundation. "I edit for Markel. I print things that interest me." What interests the crusty, 40-year veteran are broad-stroked stories on important, reasonably current topics-desegregation, the Common Market, disarmament-and if they often seem dull, what wouldn't alongside the clothes-shedding Spring-maids or the rounded Spun-lo panties girl...
...figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded, "Doesn't music all boil down to a matter of taste?" "But of course," said Milhaud. "You have poor taste...
...Harvard, seems depressingly unfamiliar with his subject. An article which begins "In 1939 all Harvard ROTC cadets were probably polo players, academic bums, or both" promises little in the way of reasonable evaluation or accurate reporting; and Meyers keeps the promise in nine pages of off-centered insights and dull prose. Quite often he either has his facts wrong, as in his description of drill inspection, or he distorts them. What might have been an interesting statistical portrait of the typical cadet at Harvard, for example, is blurred by irrelevant snide comments: "The typical ROTC man is a Catholic from...
...prototype Twentieth Century man. Two masterpieces, Casablanca (1943) and Big Sleep (1946), and a number of clever near-misses like To Have and Have Not (1945), Key Largo (1947), and Dark Passage (1947) brighten the canon of Bogie films in the 'Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything, just whistle."), Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Peter Lorre gathered together. The swansong of the team, its leader, and the whole crime movie genre...
...thing is to sound innocent but almost have sexy adventures. And sound on the inside. Like mentioning that daddy is a noble lord every so often and using plenty of Mayfair slang. I tell how debs get through dull parties by hiding War and Peace in the loo of the Dorchester where the dances are given. But a girl has to have lived or something. Otherwise she'll be a drip. So I thought I'd throw in some sentences like. "Lesbians aren't my swooniest subject." I mean, it came naturally after I had that woman...