Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the necessary ugliness, there is a great deal worth seeing in Saigon. The markets (black and legitimate) are never dull. Of course there are the perpetually delicate, self-possessed Vietnamese women floating by in their silken ao dais. And for sagging American spirits there are always the px's which can meet almost any need...
...last two club elections have not been dull. The 1966 ticket was unopposed, but a "gorilla" ran against Scott for vice-president. (The gorilla was disqualified because only homo sapiens are eligible for club membership.) Last year the "group" who had backed the gorilla reappeared; one of them called the club a farce, singing "We've Got Trouble Right Here in YR's" to the tune from The Music...
With boring regularity, the Harvard varsity swimming team piled up ten of twelve first places to demolish Columbia, 68-33, Saturday in the IAB. Coach Bill Brooks kept many of his big guns on the bench and let the other team members do the work. The races were dull and the times poor, but still good enough to run away from weak Columbia...
Bauer and Brown's Rick McLaughlin traded goals in a dull, indecisive second period that gave no hint of what was to come...
...Lake Is Missing with moody perversion, all elements with which Preminger has always felt at home. Preminger's characters remain frustrated or trapped, happy endings notwithstanding: we know that the assumed union of the detective and his dream-girl in Laura will end in disillusion, as the dream becomes dull reality; similarly, the Cardinals' meditative peace at the end of the film is not a reconciliation with God but a practical compromise with reality. With European detachment, Preminger stands outside the tense and ugly world, watching with carful scrutiny without allowing his camera to enter and take part. In Preminger...