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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN DAISY MILLER came out last Summer, there was some question whether Cybill Shepherd had magnificently captured the dull vapid chattering character of Daisy, of whether she was just a bad actress. Peter Bogdanovich has evidently decided to set the record straight for in his new movie At Long Last Love, he gives ample evidence that Shepherd is a very bad actress in deed...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Woosome Twosomes | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...examines Women, children, animals, West Texas and four other subjects. They're good photographs -the West Texas ones show Bonnell's own close connection with the state. But they lack something-a sense of visual interest or some art-historical esoteric term like that. In short, they're dull. On the second floor...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: GALLERIES | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...issue like this one would be complete without Larry McMurtry, the best known writer produced by Texas in the last decade McMurtry's novels (Hud. The Last Picture Show) are generally dull and mediocre, but his Atlantic, article. "The Texas Moon, and Elsewhere," is an incisive exploration of the Texas character, and the strongest article in the issue. Carefully shunning the innumerable cliches about cowboys, oil and braggadocio that make up the prevailing image of the state even among Texans, McMurtry acts as the critic he feels Texas has always lacked. An expatriate now living in Washington. D.C., he returned...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Cowboys, Oil and Braggadocio | 3/12/1975 | See Source »

...American business, however, a dozen imitation "feminist" magazines have not sprung up in its wake. So Ms. is left being the sole mass-media spokeswoman for the woman's movement--a difficult position, to say the least. As Wonder Woman's face fades, Ms. settles into the fairly dull month-by-month job of putting together a magazine. And the question of just how representative or even useful Ms. is for most of the women in this country gets asked more and more often...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Mid-Revolutionary Mores | 3/11/1975 | See Source »

...greatest fault is that in his obsession with the ordinary and commonplace, he often forgets that he must not only portray, but also reveal. To have impact, the photographer must reveal truths about everyday life that we don't normally recognize. Without such revelation, the images are flat, dull and lifeless. Bill Zulpo-Dane's photo-postcards are faithful portrayals of places he has visited, but as photographs, they are excruciatingly dull...

Author: By Sam Pillsbury, | Title: The State Of The Art | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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