Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city was afflicted with brief, tantalizing cloudbursts that dripped soot out of the sky onto people's clothes. One downpour temporarily knocked out power lines in three boroughs and Westchester County, leaving nearly 10,000 families without electricity-and air conditioning. But most of the time, a dull, maddening haze obscured the sky. "It looked awful," said Pilot-Photographer Tony Linck, after he had helicoptered around Manhattan in midweek, on assignment for TIME. "It was like flying inside a yellow-gray cloud. We had to fly by compass at one point...
...through the revolutionary's individual perspective, the film rarely exposes more than a minimal depth of detail about anything. Williams objectifies the complete one-sideness and distortion of the bourgeois media by excluding them almost totally from the film, portraying a virtual knowledge-vacuum through the anaesthetic quietude, the dull-colored monotones, and the looming stillness constantly before the camera. Society he presents as a Kafkaesque, corrupt, and abstract unknown, which represses with perfect, restrained expediency and provides nothing concrete for the opposition to attack. The issues are vague and predictable for a post-industrial giant-war, imperialism, racism...
...Barnard's departure wangled a heart-lung machine for him. Barnard is liberal with his "if it were not for the generosity of," particularly to Wangensteen. On the other hand, a new lifesaving operation employing a tube inside the heart-thought up by Barnard during a dull sermon in church -was performed with some revisions two years later by a Canadian surgeon named William Mustard. The doctor notes somewhat sulkily that "today it is known as Mustard's operation...
...which, Robert Trent Jones gives a ringing bravo. "If it's short, flat, dull courses that the pro golfers prefer, they can order them out of the Sears, Roebuck catalog," he says. Indeed, his whole object is to create a course of "hard pars and easy bogeys, a course that tests a player's skill by demanding well-thought-out and beautifully executed shots." Convinced that the gallery does not want to see "boring putting contests but great golf shots," he would even like to eliminate "cheap birdies" by extending the minimum length of par-five holes from...
...they don't do dental work. Nobody in fact does dental work. So all Roger could do was take pain killers like smack or cocaine, but that would cost him money he doesn't have, so just now what he needed was to get really stoned and dull it down...