Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, is a connoisseur of this kind of unease. There are exhibitions that mark a full assumption of powers: the idiom is assembled, the grammar wrought, the experiences wholly understood. So it is with this show of Bartlett's, whose unlikely motif is a dull little French garden, and whose prevailing mood is an exacerbated sense of attentiveness, suspense and imbalance...
...drearier in sunshine than it would have been in fog or rain, because the bright light exposed every woeful bungalow ..." "Most villages and towns wore a pout of rejection." "None of this made the town of Portsmouth visibly interesting, because nothing could." "I saw that Dawlish was small and dull." "Every house was identical, and equally ugly." "I saw British people lying stiffly on the beach like dead in sects." "I came to hate Aberdeen more than any other place I saw." "Up close, Deny was frightful." "I decided that I had seen few places on earth more depressing than...
ONLY A FINE LINE divides amateur and professional theater, and the Boston Shakespeare Company's season premiere, Pericles, makes this woefully clear. Though this production has some innovation, drama, and wit, more often it is confused, contrived, disjointed and dull. Peter Sellars '80 and his troupe enthusiastically embrace their material, but they do so with little vitality and less virtuosity. For someone of Sellars' demonstrated skills, knowledge and insights, Pericles comes as a marked disappointment...
...Junior League brunch to attend if you're deemed part of the "in" crowd, and possibly a get-together with the neighbors down he block. All in all though, things aren't too lively, and residents often become defensive about "big city life." Hazelhurst comparatively seems pretty dull. Yet Hazelhurst, Mississippi, like Faulkner's Yacknapatapha County and the backwoods settings of Eudora Welty's short stories, has a character and quality uniquely its own. And although its citizens and its history give the facade of being just another southern town. Hazelhurst residents still have aspirations, feelings, sensibilities and insights...
...Schubert. "I believe in musical digestion. If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Chateaubriand and vegetables." 1980: Life with a Congressman need not be dull, especially if the Congressman is Democrat John Jenrette, who lost his House seat in the November election after being convicted of bribery in the FBI Abscam investigation. Writing in last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Rita Jenrette, 30, confesses: "I knew the honeymoon was over when I rolled over...