Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bewitched Bayou was dull, though, and unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...
...globe into the Free World/Communist Bloc opposition Kelman's elders have seemingly abandoned. Because the Communist enemy is so evil for Kelman, it follows that America must be virtuous, in small ways as well as substantial ones. Witness: Kelman enters an East German supermart and the place looks dull. "I longed for something all my righteous ideas taught me to believe was worthless or even insidious--bright American packages," he laments...
...times Thursday night's improvisation was extremely dull, but it had its moments, too. The two performers, who introduced themselves as Steve and Paul, announced several climaxes in the course of the evening, the most convincing of which was probably Steve's threat to play a love scene with a friend of his. She happened to be one-tenth of the audience, which had long since demonstrated that it thought it could out-act the actors, which was quite possibly the case...
Floyd's score isn't too individual. The ranch hands' trio breaks up verbal rhythms rather in the manner of The Rake's Progress, and the music also includes several hints of jazz, which generally end up sounding like the dull parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from...
Undoubtedly the high point of excitement of a dull match came in first-round epee action. Chris Jennings, Marion's premier epee fencer, got caught up in an act worthy of an Academy Award nomination as he feigned injury after two collisions with MIT's Bill Eckal, who displayed as much agility as Bubba Smith on roller skates. But in dramatic activity that Jennings manufactured he left out the winning climax, falling behind 3-2, 4-3 before bowing...