Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production, Gammer Gurton's Needle is a funny play, though what play it is that's funny is often unclear. Kaplan has staged a brilliantly colorful, broadly comic, visually and musically inventive production which attaches itself only loosely to what in a modernized version, is still a crude and dull play...
Football drills can get rather dull after a while, but Tyson kept himself alert by spending his days 40 stories high over Madison Avenue in Manhattan, doing construction work on the New York Life Building. It's the kind of work that adds creases to Yovicsin's brow...
Listless Talk. While Rockefeller was busily dispelling the tired-blood stigma that had bedeviled him, O'Connor was mired in a dull, perfunctory campaign. Stumping upstate, the Democratic candidate arrived at Endicott (pop. 19,-000) too late in the afternoon to greet most of the workers leaving the town's large IBM plant. That night he wandered around shopping centers vainly trying to find hands to shake. Next day he showed up for a speech in the Chenango Valley town of Norwich (pop. 9,200), found fewer than 20 people waiting for him at a local restaurant. Returning...
...start, why does he cram the sets so full? Courtiers buzz around by the dozens, trailing phrases of French and German. For Russians their faces are remarkably dull; compare them to the beautiful hordes of extras in a Dovshenko. And they get in the way. When Ophelia comes on singing "Hey, nonny nonny," she has to bull her way through a battalion of military types. One thinks of the brave USO girls visiting the front...
...writes fraudulent death certificates, Sellers is, as always, brilliant. Two very short scenes have been written for him (there could be no other justification for their inclusion in the story) and these are very good indeed. They are, in fact, the only two good moments in this otherwise long, dull, incredibly unfunny comedy...