Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert McNamara, whose bullet-headed manner made him appear an ideal fact-finder, had a fondness for mathematics. David Halberstam has reported that on one Vietnam trip, an edgy McNamara sat through a dull series of fabricated progress reports by American military advisers, but was exhilarated when one clever officer presented his fabricated progress report with elaborate charts, graphs, and computer statistics. Those were facts...
...hears few poetic descriptions of the Pacific's grandeur these days-only dry statistics: permissible concentrations of pesticides, inventories of recoverable resources, projections for master plans. It all seems a bit dull. But the results are startling: Westerners are standing up against the offshore drilling rig, the dredge and the bulldozer...
Stewarts Never A Dull Moment saw him settle into a comfortable groove. The Band's Rock of Ages (on one listen) but greatest hits, done New Oricans style thanks to Allen Toussaint's arranging Morrison's "Saint Dominic's Preview" was a return lyrically and musically, to music he had made nearly four years ago on Astrol Weeks...
...edible memorial may well nourish fond remembrances of a man more effectively and at far less cost than all of the cold monuments and dull libraries that are now so prevalent. A steaming bowl of Eisenhower vegetable soup might warm recollections more quickly than rummaging through the Eisenhower papers in Abilene. How better to catch the flavor of Lyndon Johnson than by munching a deer-foot sausage or supping on hot Pedernales chili? Richard Nixon could be forewarned to start scouring his ancestral cookbooks, if only to avoid being commemorated by cottage cheese with ketchup...
There is indeed a legend that a woman disguised as a man sat on the throne of St. Peter some time in the 9th century. Surely, however, the legend could not have been as turgid or as invincibly dull as the film that has been fashioned from it. The film makers, making a wild scramble for contemporary relevance, have chosen to frame the story with a singularly absurd yarn about a schizoid evangelist (also portrayed by Miss Ullmann) who believes she is Pope Joan. "Classic case of withdrawal," mutters Psychiatrist Keir Dullea, peering at her through huge spectacles...