Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dolor of television's long dull summer, almost any new face would have been welcome. But with last week's show. NBC's The Lively Ones had outlived the first blush of its July arrival in such splendid shape that it was clearly more than a child of summertime's special forbearance. With a polished, inventive approach to the musical variety-show format, The Lively Ones is indeed lively and, more than lively, likable...
...more than afford to pay for them. Our aim is to create low-cost, quality rentals, and at the same time, like Sun City, give the old folks a good, busy life. It's got to be like a long vacation on a cruise ship-never a dull moment...
...others, in greater or lesser degree, give no indication of this kind of dedication, and their work is accordingly anonymous and dull. Some of them, I know, are able to make their subject come alive in the classroom, but their literary inadequacies are disappointing and their greyness disturbing...
...most of its pages, Strauss's book is a colorful tapestry of "men and decisions." But when it deals with Strauss's political infighting, it turns a dull grey. Once again Strauss defends his role in lifting Oppenheimer's security clearance, in the Dixon-Yates contract, in the Senate squabble over his own confirmation. But he shows no understanding of his opponents' point of view, misses the irony that he became as evasive under congressional grilling as Oppenheimer did when queried about his Communist connections. But Strauss's critics should beware of charging him with...
From "He" to "You." In the interests of fictional reform, Michel Butor, 35, has rather expansively declared that an author should create a new technique for each new subject. Butor's latest technique produced Mobile, an indescribably dull account of 50 U.S. states, presented as weird collections of lists, and typographical eccentricities which owe something to both John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings. One of his earliest books, Passing Time, was a Robbe-Grilletesque effort to scramble time sequences. The hero keeps a double-entry diary in which accounts of what happened as far back as seven months...