Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double. The dull script almost throttles the grand old gitgatgittle out of its star, but for all its shortcomings the movie still has Danny Kaye...
...decision created an interesting exception to compulsory-attendance laws, which were originally designed to force the dull into school rather than to force the bright to stay there...
...publisher ever spent more off hours mingling with the hurrying crowd than Joe Patterson. He not only filled his paper with lively stuff-plenty of comics, features, serialized fiction, puzzle contests and the best picture spreads in town-but he knew just how to sell the "important but dull" story to the gum-chewers. News editorials generally read like street-corner arguments, a tribute in part to Patterson, who once rejected an editorial because "it reads too much as though an editorial writer had written it," and to Chief Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, who knew how to transfer the boss...
...Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...
Before I start my tantrum about the quality of Harvard course writing, let me first say that all the papers in the May issue of the Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences are thoroughly competent, if dull...