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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson Browne's songs are bouncy, and if you listen to them closely, dull. But he is at least energetic and probably will not detract from what should be a first-Raitt concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock and Jazz | 10/4/1973 | See Source »

...doesn't keep him from keeping their deposit) seem to be best, but this may be just because they have the best parts. John Pasquin directs well, and William F. Matthews' set looks as though Weller's people could inhabit it. The second act has a couple of short dull stretches -- a series of jokes about relevance that don't seem awfully relevant any more, and a brief appearance by Bob's uncle to let Bob know his mother is dying -- and every once in a while the comedy seems not only wry but also thin, as though the play...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Chuckles Along the Way | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

...never saw this $25 million production, but I sure was unimpressed with the preview clips in which the Japs bomb the living shit out of our boys at Pearl Harbor. I imagine there's lots of action and maybe even some blood and gore to sustain the kind of dull plotless romance one generally finds in war movies (and at Harvard). This movie bombed at the box-office and crippled traditional Hollywood in the same way the Japs scuttled the Pacific Fleet. 8:30 on Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...Although the hamburger originated in medieval Europe, as raw beef shredded by a dull knife. Merchants from the Baltic carried the dish to Hamburg, where it is still popular both raw and cooked. German immigrants brought it, fried and bunned, to South St. Louis, and introduced it to the rest of the U.S. at the St. Louis World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Burger That Conquered the Country | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...spent 21 years of my life waiting to get out of Minnesota. True, the lakes are blue, the sky is big, the air is fairly clear. But God, the place is unutterably dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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