Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antique dramaturgy, while Patrick Garland's direction is curiously uninflected, so the whole enterprise gives off the air of a respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll whose spring is not wound tightly enough under the tensions of dull domesticity in the early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy English actors-Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Edith Evans, Anna Massey and Denholm...
Unlike traditional cause promotions, which are often earnestly dull, signature-crammed exhortations in pamphlets, PIC ads use sprightly graphics and tough, well-turned copy. And the ads are typically placed in mass-circulation dailies and on radio stations. The agency, devoted exclusively to public service ads, gets its total annual revenue of $103,000 in the form of individual donations and grants from such liberal-inclined institutions as the Washington-based Stern Family Fund, the Kaplan Fund in Manhattan, and the San Francisco Foundation...
What IQ tests do, to a large extent, is to label as "bright" or "dull" those children who do or do not meet capitalist society's "expectations": expectations conditioned by racial prejudice and class background, among other factors...
Take three of their myths. We are proudly dull-and inaccessible-because we achieve so much, they told everybody. We work harder than anybody ever has in the White House, they said. We represent the real America out there, they declared...
...also more in the endless procession of campaign histories, represented this season by a capable but rather specialized volume, Nazi Victory: Crete 1941. And of course, one genuine clunker, priced at $6.95, from Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Called Hitler's Last Days, it is the brief but mesmerizingly dull memoir of a minor staff officer named Gerhard Boldt, who, as it turns out, constructs Hitler's very last days from already published sources-since he was not there...