Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldwater provided almost all the excitement at a dull Republican National Convention. Everything had been set up for the nomination of Richard Nixon, but Barry's conservative backers insisted on placing him in nomination. Knowing he could not win-and feeling that the conservative cause would suffer a setback with his defeat -Barry withdrew. His voice harsh with emotion, he pleaded for party unity. But he also made it dramatically clear that he had not given up his cause. Cried Goldwater: "Let's grow up, conservatives! If we want to take this party back, and I think...
...Night of the Iguana. All horseplay and no headwork, the gossips sneered, will surely make John a dull picture. But Director Huston (Freud), as often before, has saucily tweaked the bluenoses. In ten wild weeks at a sunny place for shady people on Mexico's spectacular west coast, Huston and company put together a picture that excites the senses, persuades the mind, and even occasionally speaks to the spirit-one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play...
...Decent & Dull. Second-ranking daily is the Examiner, which was William Randolph Hearst's pedestal paper, and which still styles itself, somewhat anachronistically, as "Monarch of the Dailies." Having surrendered its circulation lead to the Chronicle in 1961, the Examiner now lags far behind, 293,000 to 330,000, and has lost spirit. Successive waves of new editorial management, all rolling in from Hearst headquarters in New York, seem to have improved nothing but the Examiner's morals: the paper no longer prints cheesecake, and its trucks now proclaim: "Decency-A Family Newspaper." The Examiner's editorial...
...However, the other, lower class "characters" are indeed of a lower class. Dull is overplayed by George Friend, as is Costard by Peter Weil whose lapses into a Southern drawl are also annoying...
Farrell says insistently that most people are dreary, not fascinating, and the reader imagines Farrell saying "I'm not going to divert you from the important truth of dullness by presenting my dull people in an entertaining way. I'm going to be as dull as possible about...