Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which courtier will be the first to mention the royal flash. Linda of Arabia deals in crashing generalities. "Arabs are hypochondriacs," she offers en passant. Bahrain is "tidy," Qatar is dull and Kuwait is full of trendy boutiques but still very conservative. One sheikh found his unmarried daughter with a man and took her out to the desert-forever. The Saudi view of women boils down to "treasure or tramp." Linda apparently does not fall into either category, which is probably...
...plot involves the president of a tottering republic and his wife. They have just escaped an assassination attempt by anarchists as the play opens. Killed instead are a colonel sitting next to the president and the first lady's beloved dog, who dies of a heart attack. This rather dull premise is the funniest thing about the play. The audience is treated to 80 minutes of maunderings by the protagonists, the wife detailing her hatred for her husband and for the anarchists, and the president blathering endlessly to his mistress about his problems...
...imaginative production might have rescued the good and masked the bad in this 80-year-old drama. Director Ellis Rabb reverses that equation, how ever; his Caesar and Cleopatra is as dull as it is dutiful. Scenes change with astonishing rapidity, but the action seems regulated by an hourglass - an illusion whose secret is best left with Rabb and the Sphinx. Ironically, the one liberty the director has taken, a vigorous pruning to keep the play within two hours, makes Shaw's needlessly complicated plot simply baffling...
...word, the game was boring. In two words, it was really dull. In three words (with a contraction to boot), Yale couldn't skate. In three and over, the Crimson icemen faced a "must not lose" situation against the visiting Elis on Saturday afternoon and Channel 7. So they didn...
...shirt reads, "The Ivy League: A Tradition of Men in Exciting Positions," and the Harvard track team sold over one hundred of them at Cornell last weekend. But while the underwear market was brisk, the Crimson finished a dull fifth at the Indoor Heptagonal Championships...