Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawings composed of unspecified shapes, even if they are carefully conceived, run the risk of seeming flat and dull, not because they fail to give us something to recognize and latch onto, but because they lack a certain attention to organization. Many of Kline's and Pollock's patterns seem repetitive and senseless because they have no apparent structure, even though the artists might have brooded over their drawings for weeks. And the work of these five artists is most captivating when it reveals a consistent, internal structure. One can't help feeling that art, no matter how expressive...
Most education majors suffer in silence through dull required courses about "teaching methods." But Mrs. II-ene lanniello, a senior at the University of Bridgeport, has decided to stage a one-woman revolt. Claiming that the "Methods and Materials in Teaching Basic Business Subjects" course she had to take last year was "worthless," she sued the school to get her tuition and expenses back...
Like many workers grievances. Holcombe's have a specific focus but seem more important for the general malaise they portray. Harvard to him is the powerful, anonymous Him on the other end of the phone, the organization he says portrays him as "a dull witted man full of absurd notions"--while he must seem to Harvard an inexperienced troublemaker, someone who, as Stefani says, needs to "get educated" to the way labor management relations are usually conducted here Holcombe's aggressive, stream-of-grievances. Harvard-as-enemy style of shop stewardship is new to the University, and although Balsam seems...
...Look," Stefani says. "Look what we bring to entice them to come to the meeting to get educated. Sure the meetings are dull. But hell, it's business...
...making a serious philosophical statement on human sensuality. He fails not so much because he lack the originality and the wit of a director like Bertolucci but because his effort is transparently insincere. His plot is so poorly planned and the lofty lines of his script are so dull and pointless that it just looks like he had nothing to say and knew...