Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inabilities, makes his life increasingly unbearable: "What do they want from doctors," he asks, "miracles?" I thought Henze's music went on for a while after it had said all it had to say. But Quincy's production, which relies mainly on film projections, kept things from every getting dull. And at least most of what the music says--the patients' chorale of faith, or the sudden cessation of the orchestra's conventional dissonance for the doctor's "He took my word and lay still," or his waltztime bursts of antic merriment-- is interesting and important...
...beginning of the takeover, the Wounded Knee incident was a reporter's paradise, Indians wearing war paint, U.S. marshals in baby blue jump suits, and demands centering around an 1868 treaty provided the national press with more copy than it needed. Long before the colorful descriptions became tedious and dull to the writers, the readers' attention waned...
...Friends Are Going to be Strangers, he pulls adolescent pranks which upset whole families and mortify his best friends, and McMurtry chalks them all up as the natural actions of a sensitive, unspoiled artist. Since McMurtry himself has a very likable writing talent, rarely has so dull a conception of a novel proved so pitiable a waste of time...
Freeland also stood out in the curtainraiser, a dull concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen, because he sang English instead of whatever tenors are singing when they roll their r's like guttural hyenas on second-rate recordings of Handel oratorios. Fuller and McCarthy also sang well; Lise Landis, the clown Apollinaire described in one of his less inspired couplets as "Zanzibar's Monsieur Lacouf/Who died and died again without saying ouf," joined Peter Kellogg in an entr'acte dance that was both comic and lyrical...
...self-confidence and likely to remove his coat at some point of the meeting." Such lampoonery, explains Pringle Smith, editor of the business school magazine and a member of the ad hoc committee, is an unexpected result of continued discrimination. "A lot of bright women are in dull, repetitive jobs here, so they spend their spare time thinking up creative things." Among the things is a framed flower-bedecked watercolor sign reading TAKE A WOMAN TO LUNCH. It was a gift to Fleming from campus women, and now hangs in his office. The women also persuaded Fleming to attend several...