Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stewart's Never a Dull Moment continues and solidifies the tradition of the picaresque in rock music that he established with Every Picture Tells a Story. The idea of Stewart as the eternally travelling vagabond can be traced as far back as "Man of Constant Sorrow," from his first solo album. But it is with Gasoline Alley's title song and his reworking of Elton John's "Country Comforts" that Stewart became seriously concerned with a partially autobiographical view of himself as vagabond. Since then he has rearranged his priorities in recording, and his albums, an equal measure of originals...
...York's celebrated concrete canyons and glittering skyscrapers, which many people consider exciting, are actually sterile, pompous and stupefyingly dull. At least that is Melvyn Kaufman's view-and he is doing something about it. A partner in the William Kaufman Organization, a prominent New York building firm founded by his father, he has launched a campaign "to humanize buildings through shock and disruption...
...Moscow's Central Chess Club, however, the reaction was summed up by one player who observed: "Well, we've still got Spassky." Spassky himself is happy that chess has a Bobby. "It would be an awfully dull world without him," he says. Like Fischer, Spassky comes from a broken home and also had a games-playing sister. (Iraida went on to become the Soviet checkers champion.) During World War II, Spassky's parents were separated; he was evacuated from Leningrad and lived for a period in an orphanage in the Kirov Region. He learned the game when he was five...
...Have and Have Not. On re-viewing, the film is disappointingly dull. Howard Hawks directed uninspiredly. Bogart looks tired, even the Faulkner quips aren't so hot. Lauren Bacall remains smashing. So does Take the Money and Run, a filmed string of Woody Allen routines written and directed by... Woody Allen. HARVARD SQUARE THEATER. Have: 3:25, 6:35, 9:45. Take...
...paced outfit looking forward to a comfortable if unexciting middle age. Its stock, which last week sold at 23½, has barely changed price since the early '60s. Now, if the natural-gas and power-station projects are an indication, Tenneco's future will be anything but dull...