Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class. Their film starts with the question "Do you feel any pain?" It ends with the conclusion that people can retain emotional sensitivity, self-respect and respect for others if they are willing to build on the world that's given them. Some might say that the message is dull simply because it is quietist, or that it is appropriate only to these three people. Such reactions would--from whatever point-of-view--be puerile. The characters' yearnings are basic ones, and the anomie that helps frustrate their personal gropings is the same which permeates all industrial society. If those...
...feuds at the New York Times, Talese drops more at the reader's feet than anyone knows what to do with. Honor Thy Father is a jumble of you-are-there re-reportage, underworld history, fictionalized interior monologues, and a long courtroom scene. But it is never dull...
Talese notes other moments of excitement. Yet he shows better than anyone else that the life of a Mafioso can be pretty dull. Much of the time it is bounded by family reunions, television watching, overeating and taking circuitous auto trips to avoid surveillance...
Brown-Penn--On a dull Saturday, Brown's runners might wear out Penn, but after watching Drexel Tech vs. Lafayette, the fans at Franklin Field will be calling for action. And since Penn will beat Brown in soccer this morning, the gridiron team will carry the momentum into the game. Quaker quarterback Ron Dawson will go straight to the air for the bomb. Rhode Island (nationally acclaimed serial power that it is) went to the pass last weekend at Brown and scored two touchdowns without blinking. Penn will be airborn for four periods to a 28-13 victory...
...that they either moved very slowly, or in a circle, or just fell over. But my 2 yellow back stayed in tiptop shape and before the end of every game he would outrun everyone for a long touchdown. Yale and Colgate will move slowly and fall over in a dull battle today, but Jauron will break one long run in the fourth quarter to end a slow, close game. Yale 17, Colgate...