Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Townshend also frames a story called "Pancho and the Baron" with a similar kind of dull shlock. This is pretty mean of ol' Pete, since he knows that all his readers really want is juicy anecdotes about...
Terrington's first warning of the impending disaster came when an emergency warning light and a buzzer went off, signaling trouble in the plane's left engine. At about the same moment, an explosion resounded throughout the airport. "It was like a dull thud," said Neal Andrews, 38, a cab-driver who was waiting in the airport's taxi line. "I thought it was a tire blowing out," Sharon Jessop, 18, a student from Manchester, recalled nine hours after her harrowing escape from the wreckage...
...poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...
Probably the boldest and most subtle experiment in the latest album is with popular music itself. As Spinal Tap showed, mimicking bad rock is the best way to criticize it. Likewise, the songs Little Creatures dip into the sounds and dull themes of pop music, but carefully refrain from making the complete dive. Instead they go just far enough to poke fun at the music during the journey. The chance they take, nonetheless, is a big one, considering they are dealing with a genre they usually take no interest in. This sort of dialectic-bashing implies an experiment that...
...lucky dancer. She is 39 now, and still the most exciting ballerina in the world. Purists may fret over whether her lower back is as springy as ever, but the years have if anything enhanced her artistry -- the daring and the inspired eccentricity with which she can ignite a dull ballet and redefine a great role. Farrell created her own biggest stroke of fortune simply by inspiring George Balanchine over nearly two decades to create a necklace of marvelous parts for her; it is surely the richest repertory of any dancer within memory...