Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November Action Comm?? (NAC) turned yesterday's registra? ?? from dull routine to acid rock...
...want people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out." But as a prosecution witness in the obscenity trial of the raunchy off-Broadway sex-and-protest farce Che!, the Broadway tycoon churned out some pretty potent criticism of his own: "Patently offensive, vulgar, lewd and very dull." Playwright Lennox Raphael, in Merrick's view, "had no talent whatsoever and should seek vocational guidance...
...more and more women seem willing to take the chance. At Boston's Jordan Marsh, Hair Goods Buyer Paul Senecal reports that many customers are repeats. "Because of the low price," he says, "a woman can wear the one that suits her mood. If she wakes up feeling dull, there is her plain brown, but if she wakes up feeling sexy, she can put on the platinum blonde...
...grass survived. The surface of the earth was as flat as the forehead of a bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull yellow and the ash-gray covered the earth and stretched like a mourning shawl toward the horizon...
...Like David Copperfield's Aunt Betsey Trotwood, all literary aunts should be brisk and, if possible, maiden. But to be really successful they must also have a dull, dim nephew as a foil. Also, it is the aunts' tragedy that their stories are invariably written by their dim nephews...