Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less content with the four young people. Faye Dunaway's Hypatia Tarleton (the Young Thing) shouts and mouthes her lines magnificently--rather like the tutored Eliza Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...
...disappeared, and a swarm of travelers in MarcoPolaroid sunglasses have gone off to wander the earth seeking low overhead and finding high adventure. Both U.S. and European companies are working on location everywhere from the Middle East to the Greater Antilles. If the final results may often seem dull as Hoboken on the screen, there is plenty of color in the making of the films. Current examples...
...particular, the score adheres, if anything, somewhat too closely to the text: the persons of a Jamesian narrator remains, and a gentleman in Victorian evening dress is required to deliver a dull and quite uncalled-for prologue, and then to disappear abruptly and permanently. A bit upsetting, that...
...Edinburgh (Aug. 20-Sept. 9). Dull and in atrophy for several years, Scotland's International Festival of the arts promises a return to pre-eminence this year under a new artistic director, Lord Harewood, 38, music-critic cousin of Queen Elizabeth. With John Osborne's Luther (see above), he will present the Bristol Old Vic's version of Lawrence Durrell's Sappho and Wolf (Expresso Bongo) Mankowitz' adaptation of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Frank V, described as the "musical history of a private bank." Then there is also the famed Edinburgh "Fringe"-small, independent productions...
...Long concerned with the U.S. kitchen, engineers of Whirlpool Corp. (dishwashers, freezers) escaped into deepest space. Worried that dull food during long journeys may drive astronauts dotty, Whirlpool last week was busy testing a space kitchen designed to serve Swiss steak, baked ham, filet of sole, cakes, cookies and other goodies out of gleaming bins and refrigerators. There will be three electric ovens; from nozzles hot and cold water will spurt into collapsible tubes containing dehydrated coffee or fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract...