Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gene Kinasewich added another tally with two minutes remaining in the second period, and the Crimson moved into the final, dull 20 minutes with a 3-0 lead and a man in the penalty box. Though only five men were on the ice, the varsity scored anyway on a Tim Taylor shot at the 33 second mark...
...piece is one of Liszt's grandest, but it is dull in most performances. It is long and has no easily graped structure; apparently, a pianist with the technique and imagination of Horowitz is needed to tie its stretched out variations together...
...three electronic pieces also have a preoccupation with free progression, but in this music the movement remains "surprises" and goes no further. The aesthetic ideas of these composers aside, such unpurposeful repetition of sounds (unpurposeful to my ear at least) is simply dull. This is particularly true of John Cage's Fontana Mix, where two tapes can be superimposed in any fashion--and where in this instance the combination resulted in twenty minutes of nonsense. Yet a recording exists in which that is not true: the record's particular overlapping of the tapes gives the noises a consistent texture...
...other hand, absence of a time limit often produces incredibly long, dull ball games that usually end with only a few diehards still in the stands. In the last few years the public has been rebelling against the tedium that marks most baseball games. Changing the rule might help--I hope it does--but baseball might well be doomed to a gradual decline in popularity if recently shifts in public attitudes continue...
...game marked by long stretches of dull and sloppy hockey, short stretches of furious scoring, and too many penalties, the varsity hockey team held off a third period rally to down Yale 6-5 at the Boston Arena Saturday night. The victory gave the Crimson its third straight Ivy League title...