Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes--and Hecht is not able to sustain his performance throughout. He nevertheless has some admirable moments--such as the nicely ruminative "There's a great spirit gone" passage; the speech beginning, "O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more and the point when his eyes go dull as he stabs himself following a false report of Cleopatra's death. Still, he does not live up to the bobility (or vestiges of it) ascribed to him by several of the other personages...
Mutiny on the Bounty, the old film of the great sea-story, with a perfect cast: Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh and Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian. A bit dull, though. With North By Northwest, an enjoyable Hitchcock, with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. ORSON WELLES CINEMA I. Mutiny: 4, 9. Northwest...
...diets, the experts feel, have only temporary effect, and some can be medically unsafe. Drugs that dull the appetite, like amphetamines, help certain people for a while, and some doctors prescribe drugs in conjunction with diets. But no one considers pills a long-term answer because of side effects and the chance of addiction. Many extremely obese people eat heavily because of emotional problems. For these patients, psychotherapy can provide clues about the basic causes of the trouble and sometimes helps ease the anguish of kicking gluttony. The key element is usually motivation. Group sessions on the style of Alcoholics...
Many of the film's limitations derive from the original material. Documentary theater--such as Berrigan's play--sacrifices characterization and theatrical expressiveness in order to get the simple facts straight and pure. This can be deadly dull. And, though I've not seen the play, only read it, I assume that the nearness of the Catonsville Nine's trial, and some clever ploys at arousing consequent emotional tension (including film clips of the actual Catonsville action), are what insured its almost universal acceptance one year...
...creators both went to high school in the '50s-Warren Casey, 37, in Yonkers, N.Y., and Jim Jacobs, 29, in Chicago. Jacobs, who says he was a greaser (a guy who wore his hair in a greasy ducktail), conceived the show as a celebration of the dull but peaceful era "when the only thing kids knew about the President was that he played golf and had trouble with his intestines, and the biggest tragedy in life was if you didn't get your dad's car for the drive...