Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weekend, honored as the best Danish film of 1963, suggests that life in that tidy, prosperous welfare state is a smorgasbord of boredom and discontent. As interpreted by Director Palle Kjaerulff-Schmidt, its benefits whet the appetite but dull the taste. "What we need is an air raid," says one world-weary citizen. "Masses of planes, guns firing, everybody seeking cover or protecting the kids." Lacking such clear-cut goals, he and his friends make Scandinavia sizzle...
ALAN LOWNDES-Osborne, 965A Madison Ave. at 75th. The paintings of an English realist making his U.S. debut tell a tragic story of man and nature. His many windows speak of emptiness, his street scenes of dreary sameness, and his people are dull blotches in a vivid-hued environment that threatens to swallow them. Through...
Horse shows can be dull if you're not really old enough to appreciate the fine points. Charles Race, 21 months, is not really old enough. So he quickly lost interest in England's annual Badminton Horse Trials and began wandering. Pretty soon he spotted the mud-covered straw that was spread around because of the rain and got a great idea. He tossed a handful of the gooey stuff at a kind-looking lady standing near by. The kind-looking lady turned out to be Queen Mother Elizabeth. She was surprised and laughed politely, but she didn...
...beach, and they get what feels like a scorpion sting. Several tentacles drawn across the legs feel like a lashing with red-hot wires, and may throw a healthy adult into shock by suddenly dropping his blood pressure. The extreme pain may last an hour, and dull pain for a couple of hours more. The welts persist for up to three months...
...peculiar and original genius of Novelist John Cheever to see his chosen subject-the American middle class entering the second decade of the Affluent Society-as figures in an Ovidian netherworld of demons. Commuterland, derided by cartoonists and deplored by sociologists as the preserve of the dull-spirited status seeker, is given by Cheever's fables the dignity of the classical theater...