Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revel uses extremes as a propaganda device, isn't he allowed some latitude in his descriptions? I might be tempted to accept his distortions, if only the book weren't so grindingly dull. In his efforts to sound like a political philosopher, Revel manages to make his startling premises excruciatingly boring. Without Marx or Jesus neither convincesnordelights. Revel displays so much pompous and artificial scholarship, I even find it difficult to be outraged by his phony ideological posturing. Absolutely rabid francophiles or phobes might be interested in this minor rhetorical gesture. The rest of us should forget...
Brown's close-checking defense stymied the Crimson for the remainder of a very dull first period, but Harvard jumped to a quick goal at 1:29 of the second to up their lead to 2-0. Captain Tommy Paul dug the puck out from behind the cage and hit Larry Desmond standing 15 feet out, and Desmond shoveled a backhander into the upper right hand corner of the Brown net. Desmond moved up from third line to Paul's line during the St. Louis tourney and his play night will probably keep him there for the Cornell game...
...Very interesting. A billion dollars for Project Cyclops to listen for messages from outer space? When we come off the neon merry-go-round of Mars and Jupiter missions, the problem-plagued home base Earth might look a little dull in comparison, but it will still be here, and it is all we've got. If beings from outer space exist, let's let them come to us, and start cleaning up our own little speck of space while we wait. We do want to be here when they arrive...
...film is so resolutely dull that one hungers for the vigorous vulgarity of, say, Doctor Zhivago. The film makers occasionally comply, albeit inadvertently, as when Schaffner stages the obligatory scene of Mad Monk Rasputin wenching it up in a haystack, or when Goldman has Nikolai Vladimir Ilich Lenin grouse, "Well, Stalin has been exiled to Siberia again." There is even an occasional feint at topical significance. Count Witte (Laurence Olivier), trying to persuade Nicholas (Michael Jayston) to halt the Russo-Japanese War, says, "I'm advising you to stop a hopeless war." Replies the Czar: "The Russia my father...
Tall and ruggedly handsome, McGovern, as a campaigner, is still the low-key prairie politician who won office in South Dakota by hopping out of his car to talk to farmers in the fields. Though charming and often witty in conversation, he can be downright dull on the hustings. In deference to the youth vote, McGovern's hair has crept down over his collar and he has taken to wearing flashy mod clothes, but his failure to create any sense of drama about himself and his convictions is the despair of his staff...