Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climax, to aim their bells up in the air. That was a magnificent gesture, but--and the same is true of the bold, star-spangled nipples on Wizard--it was only a refinement. There is no revolution to be found here, only a bit of new polish on a dull surface...
...through his fidgetting torso, up to his frowning puzzled pucker. He seems a combination between what Kael described in Brando--his emotions originating deep in his chest, then reverberating slowly to the extremities and finally to the face--and John Cleese in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a dull-witted ignorant peasant baffled by the witch problem...
When producers do get around to turning out something like Throat, they promise to add Gallic subtlety to what they think is crude American formula. The radicals used to complain that French life was a dull blend of "Métro, Boulot and Dodo"-subway, work and sleep. Now, says the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchalne, the slogan is "Métro, Boulot, Dodo et Porno...
...Linguist Flesch cautions that most of the rewrites do not yet rate a 60 on his scale-the level, he says, of the New York Daily News or SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. But be it hereinafter understood that whereas the aforementioned and previously established methodology of contract composition has been adjudged dull and devoid of intelligibility, companies that fail to adjust do so at their own risk...
...remember ever seeing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth which wasn't academic and dull. None of them show her doing a modern job," said London Gallery Owner Nicholas Treadwell, 37. So, hoping to replace formality with fun, Treadwell asked 29 artists to submit something new in the way of royal portraiture. Last week his West End art gallery displayed the results, which included paintings of Her Majesty sipping tea from a Union Jack mug, holding hands with Henry VIII, rowing a boat and grinning from a heart-shaped valentine of daisies. "I see them as very affectionate portraits...