Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genuinely funny. Sister Mary Elephant, for example, will live on. But somewhere along the line Cheech and Chong decided the easy way to make a fast buck was with a movie like Up in Smoke, encouraging their audience to get stoned enough to lose sight of the unfunny, inane, dull quality of the film in the smokey haze...
...Inquiry" will try to avoid the tendency of people to write about science in a dull and incomprehensible manner, founder David H. Gibson '79 said yesterday...
Reggie Jackson drove in the game's winning run in the eighth with a Reggie Jackson-type home run to straightaway center field. The abortive comeback effort by the Sox in the last two frames may dull the memory of Jackson's clout, but it cannot deny the importance. Reggie Jackson was once again the hero on the type of battlefield where he can be nothing else, when the battle is all or most of the marbles...
...never before been to a bona-fide Toga Party, or so they claimed. Since no one was sufficiently familiar with the rites of Toga, participants behaved according to American '70s' custom. Beer and vodka flowed, the usual dislocated mutterings that pass for conversation at such gatherings coalesced into a dull roar, and the megaton stereo boomed out a never-ending series of syncopated disco thuds. Occasionally someone would chase a friend through the crowd threatening affectionately to straighten her (his?) toga or die trying, but onlookers just smiled timidly and continued to sip their punch...
Actually it was so dull that I'll use the rest of this column to ramble on about the school year, which has been anything but boring...