Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except for Marvin's gags, the movie is pretty dull. The Nazi overtones are crushing. There no surprises. The most exciting moment comes near the end when the doctor's coffin is being wheeled away. It almost topples off the cart...
...subdued string section better than I do; but the winds sounded puny in all those strings, even when Leinsdorf held them back. This situation, plus Leinsdorf's apparent desire not to spoil the Beethoven by making the Wagner too exciting, yielded a performance that was competent, well-played, and dull: The work deserves better treatment...
...moment rallies, TV talkathons, hilarious games of beisbol in Havana's public parks, spearfishing at Varadero beach and interminable gabfests with the students at Havana University, where he would often hold court until 4 or 5 a.m. No more. Today's Fidel Castro has a dull, grey look about him. He goes only to Iron Curtain receptions, talks only to Communist correspondents-and then only out of duty. "The heady days are over," notes a resident in Havana. "All you hear of Castro these days is in the newspapers. He's suddenly started behaving like a bureaucrat...
...like Castro, everybody else in Cuba is getting dull. Younger Brother Raul, Cuba's armed forces chief, who used to give a pretty noisy speech, now works in the background as quietly as any Russian general. President Osvaldo Dorticos sometimes does not even bother to accept the credentials of new ambassadors, shunting the chore instead to an assistant. As Russification grows, Cuba's bureaucracy is now overlaid by yet another bureaucracy. Two years ago, the P.U.R.S., Cuba's Communist Party, organized a special branch to provide political commissars in the military, factories and national education system...
...shoe. Then he sat down in Dunn's child-sized chair and walked away with it stuck to the seat of his pants, puffed madly at Dunn's butt-sized cigarettes, and generally behaved in outrageous taste. But somehow by the show's close, against the dull grey background of his colleagues, Moron Maxwell Smart seemed brighter than anybody. And funnier...