Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western equivalent-and popular Chinese dances-they put one pleasantly in mind of Radio City Music Hall choreography -are embedded in an evening in which an earnest soprano hymns the joys of revolutionary struggle, and musicians tootle and plink away on strange-sounding instruments. Nor does the dull excerpt from a revolutionary ballet showing a young woman abused by the minions of a wicked landowner particularly offend, though a little of this kind of thing goes a long way. Rather it is the air of detachment, abstraction that hangs over the evening and accounts for the restlessness the evening engenders...
...Carr might be smarter than we all think. Grease essentially is a poor remake of a great musical, and Travolta is pretty good as Danny Zooko--by no means overshadowed by his co-star Olivia Newton-John as Sandra D. Grease is entertaining. It could possibly lighten up a dull evening, and if you haven't heard the songs (although by now you must have heard "You're the One That I Want" played ad infinitum on the radio) once or twice by now, they are kind of fun as well...
...with wash. It had once seemed so high to me, but now I could almost reach it with my fingers. I glanced into the stores. Where were Eli the grocer and his wife, Zeldele? Just as Eli was tall, quick, agile, sharp, and argumentative, Zeldele was small, slow-moving, dull, and good-natured, Zeldele had to be told twice what it was a customer wanted. For her to put out her hand, take a piece of paper, slice off a chunk of cheese and weigh it could take a quarter of an hour. If you asked her the cost...
When I met him, on this trip, he was, by my youthful judgment, a very old man-over sixty! I went to see lim because in my military survey of Southeast Asia had been so disappointed by the U.S. Army in the Philippines-commanded by dull men who had contempt for the "aging" and retired one-time Chief of Staff of their army, Douglas MacArthur. They called him "the Napoleon of Luzon," and one spokesman told me that he "cut no more ice in this U.S. Army than a corporal." MacArthur was just an adviser to the Philippine Army...
Hurley loved dramatics-and what could be more dramatic than the personal representative of the President of the US. dropping in, from the air, for the first summit conference of the American state and the Chinese revolution, unannounced. Because it was a dull afternoon, John Paton Davies, the State Department's political adviser to Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character...