Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present as black and white functions as a sort of Brechtian alienation effect, distancing the viewer from the action in order to make him consider its implications. The black and white sequences, both in form and content, pose the question of the occupation's meaning for Frenchmen today. The dull crowds of people, the dark buildings, the depressing film studio--mundane scenes from the present--undercut the exquisite nostalgia of the color sequences and reveal the director's consciousness of the limitations of his self-exploration...
Newcombe's two victories over Connors came on grass, a fast surface suited to his serve-and-volley power game. The Las Vegas match will be on a slower synthetic surface, but Newcombe seems too strong to be seriously handicapped by a dull court. When he is pent up, Newcombe lets go with the toughest serve in tennis, and no one has a more murderous volley...
...works of R.D. Laing were placed at the North Pole (an idea that fills Chestertonians with equanimity), The Man Who Was Thursday would be in Antarctica. Chesterton here finds his inspiration in order, his thrills in sanity. To his hero, madness and chaos are not merely evil; they are dull. To this overdue reissue of the book Critic Gary Wills contributes a luminous introduction stressing Chesterton's search for revelation in the face of absurdity. The secret of the novel, he indicates, lies in its subtitle, A Nightmare...
Holmes' book was merely plonking and dull, and thus ludicrously inappropriate; Bernstein's is plonking and offensive. What offends is not the old news that Thurber had sexual problems, drank a lot and toward the end was often outrageously abusive at parties. That description fits half the writers listed in Books in Print. No adult should expect a humorist, or anyone else for that matter, to have a funny life...
...less confining despite the fact that its boundaries are self-imposed rather than natural. Pummelled by the waters of Brattle Street, buffeted by the roaring English Channel winds of Memorial Drive, isolated by the icy North Sea depths of Quincy Street, Harvard suffocates the adventuresome with the dull academic chatter of the senior common room and the unchanging faces of the dining hall. Like their insulated Old World counterparts, Harvard students conjure up their own voyage imagery, succulent with their peculiar symbols of exotic retreats and flaming foreign splendors to help them escape from the tedium of life...