Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide, and 15 ft. deep-is actually domestic (if not palatial) in size, a place one can move into. It is both sculpture and shelter, a continuous surface painted black-Nevelson's peculiar black, said to be ordinary house paint straight from the can, but with a dull lunar sheen to it, like graphite or caviar...
...power. But Sam Merrick's wooden caricature blunts Aquino's subtlety. By the end of the play, his languid arrogance and unvarying inflection--each line curved with a sneer--have become thoroughly tiresome. While Ibsen undoubtedly intended Thea Elvsted to be a bland contrast to Hedda, Jennifer Mohr's dull, anxious characterization offers no emotional range or sense of internal processes whatever...
...women are not as good as the men, but much of the blame lies with the format. Limited by dull solos and inadequate staging, the women are struck standing in the middle of the set. They make monotonous gestures and facial expressions and sing in voices too weak to carry the songs...
...play. Gondoliers was written to have no shining stars (Gilbert created seventeen leads in a fit of pique that members of D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. had just won large pay raises.) At least on stage, lovers tend to display stalwart sincerity--such unchanging goodness making them a bit dull. operetta has not just one cooing couple but three. It does not have to be so monotonous: only Luiz and Casilda (ably played by Willy Falk and Linda Cameron) need stand out as the sincere romantic leads. Faced with the prospect of renouncing principles for great wealth and wives...
...largest store"* is trying to shake its dowdy image and lure the fashion-and style-conscious shopper of the 1970s. Gone are the ground-floor budget counters where shoppers elbowed for hats, scarves and socks. Gone also are the unimaginative displays of cut-rate drugs and the dull racks of styleless garments. In their places are gleaming glass cases of jewelry and perfume, flanked by gold-crowned marble columns and overhung by glittering chandeliers. A plush green carpet, 12 ft. wide and 318 ft. long, runs along the first floor...