Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British institutions have been so determinedly middle class as Marks & Spencer. The company's 254 U.K. department stores, which constitute the country's largest retail chain, sell little that is fashionable or chic; instead, their mainstay is lines of inexpensive and respectably dull (though high quality) sweaters, shirts, bras and lingerie. This value-for-money formula has paid off handsomely: M & S's 14 million weekly shoppers give it annual revenues of $1.9 billion and profits of $184 million, both more than four times those of its largest competitor, British Home Stores...
...Chicago-area Jewel Food Stores, the items on one stretch of shelf space stand in drab contrast to the rest of the brightly colored, elaborately packaged brands. The cans and packages, in uniformly dull black, white and olive labeling, bear only the unadorned name of the product-corn flakes, tomato juice, applesauce-in blunt, stencil-like lettering. Yet these no-name groceries have become hot items, and they could herald a change in the way that Americans shop. Reason: prices of the generic-name groceries range 10% to 35% below those of comparable brand-name products, and even undercut Jewel...
...Heroes were not so dull, it would be a cause for outrage. Director Kagan and Writer Carabatsos borrow freely from other movies-notably It Happened One Night, Morgan!, and Five Easy Pieces-without ever advancing any insights of their own; there are more cute platitudes along Jack's road to self-realization than there are toll booths. The film's final ten minutes are a minor scandal. After wasting an audience's time for two hours, the movie unleashes a gory, cathartic fantasy sequence in which the hero relives the horrors of his Viet Nam combat. Film...
Whatever valuable insights on the issue of nuclear proliferation were to be gained from listening to Nye, they will be confined to the minds of those 100 students, professors and journalists who were energetic enough to strike out on that dull, misty afternoon in pursuit of a little self-edification...
...Danehy, Leonard J. Russell and Walter J. Sullivan have all been on the Council for a number of years. They oppose controls on vacant housing and bans on condominium conversion. They believe Cambridge Convention has blown these issues out of proportion in order to liven up an otherwise dull campaign. They clearly represent a constituency other than the students and professionals of the Harvard Square area...