Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That after you see enough of it, pornography is very dull-and besides, it never corrupts anybody who isn't already depraved...
...that, the cutting must always keep in mind the relation of any given performer to the rest of the group. Wadleigh has vague ideas about what establishing shots are: that would be all right if his editing were less overbearing. As it is he takes our eye to invariably dull and non-descriptive images, and then insists that these are indeed what's important about a number. The Who are one of the greatest stage acts, but Roger Daltry in close-up just doesn't carry their sets- especially when Wadleigh splits the screen in three parts and gives...
Your wife, aware of your infidelities and lack of interest, began to see her lot as slavery and her life as meaningless and dull...
Black World's villains are white-but not the predictable woolhats and rednecks. The real enemies are white liberals, whose good intentions tend to dull the edge of black rebellion, and members of the black middle class. Says Fuller: "My experience with middle-class blacks has been that all their efforts have been directed toward identifying with whites, emulating white people. They are not helping the black community to survive...
...truckers cruise over the surface of the nation without being a part of it," John Steinbeck wrote in Travels with Charley. On the road they have their own language of flashed lights and hand signals. Their oases are the dull-colored, neon-lit truck stops that offer chummy waitresses and hearty food, often throwing in hot showers and cheap rooms for a quick snooze. For a look at the truckers' special world, TIME Correspondent William Friedman hitched a ride with two truckers bound from Chicago to Los Angeles. His report...