Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...
Dangerous Work. Mexican Brown -or Heroin/B as the feds call it-accounts for more than two-thirds of the horse shot into the arms of an estimated 400,000 U.S. addicts. The arrests, reports TIME Correspondent Don Sider, "grew out of several years of usually dull, sometimes dangerous work that began to come together last May." Using information from undercover agents and pushers-turned-informers, the DEA began tracing in detail the distribution web. Early this month officials concluded that they knew enough about 57 distribution rings to try smashing them...
...halftime high spirits permitted enough chicanery to liven up a rather dull football game, and give the busy Hanover police another headache. A particularly noisy section of Cantabrigians, sitting close to the field at the 50 yard line, bribed and cajoled a staggering Leverett House sophomore into doing an unrehearsed dance routine with the Dartmouth band at midfield. He tried it a second time, only to be decked by a wayward tuba...
...Morgan. The relationship between Morgan and the aborigine Billy is intriguing, and David Gulpilil (who appeared previously in Nicolas Roeg's excellent Walkabout) acts Billy with easeful understanding. The depth of their friendship, and all of its meaning, is shunted aside in favor of sharpening up the same dull point: civilized man is the true primitive, and out laws are ground down because they are creatures of pure, therefore intolerable freedom. The people who made this movie may have found a fresh scene in Australia, but what they really needed was a new theme...
...Chinatown Jack Nicholson only discovered that John Huston had any interest in land just before he shot Faye Dunaway. Nor does the film's shallow social satire allow its all star cast to flourish any more than does the plot. Mastoianni is locked into a dull role as a middle class detective unsure of how to treat the high society Torinisti he is investigation, in particular how to deal with his growing non-professional interest in Jacqueline Bisset. Bisset does not seem half so bored as her constant companion. Trintignant. (who frequently looks as if he might scream if forced...