Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England (most notably, Director Jonathan Miller and Actor Peter Cook, who make up half the cast of Broadway's Beyond the Fringe; John Bird, of the lively "Establishment" production, and Roger Bowen, a graduate of the Second City company), some of What's Going On nonetheless proved dull. But there were numerous high moments, as when the physician head of the A.M.A. ("the Anti-Medicare Association") outlined his fees; the $500 immediate cure, the $200 long convalescence, and, "for people of limited means, a lingering death...
...behind lattices and fences. Others are more obscure and lead one into guessing games. But in the last scene, which for seven minutes pictures former meeting places of the pair, shows the emptiness of solitude. The sun is setting, but the director avoids heavy contrasts; the scene is a dull gray. If Eclipse--like its last scene--is lifeless, it is because it illustrates the difficulty not only of communicating, but of thinking and feeling and of living...
...Democratic registration advantage, luck did seem to play a part in McKeldin's victory. Goodman, a former state senator, had been accounted a pretty good mayor, who kept city hall aswirl with housing, traffic-safety, street-maintenance and law-enforcement plans. But he is a dull speaker with little appeal to the voters. McKeldin, on the other hand, is a onetime Dale Carnegie Institute instructor who has obviously kissed the Blarney stone; his oratory earned him the honor of nominating Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate...
...product is essentially dull. Genet's conception of the entire world as a brothel may have shocked Broadway critics four years ago. But the idea seems pretty tame now. When Shelley Winters explains this Weltanschauung in the movie's fade, for the benefit of the slow-witted, she adds a powerful insult to a rather mild injury. As for sensuous aspects, devotees of this limited segment of cinema art had better stick to Washington Street. There is nothing in The Balcony that could overly disturb a Puritan Sunday picnic...
...reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand, in his strongest and most fully developed form, never feels the demands of life as an odious burden. "Dull submission," according to James, "is left far behind, and a mood of welcome, which may fill any place on the scale between cheerful serenity and enthusiastic gladness, has taken its place...