Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Birch's Belmont headquarters are quiet enough. There's a receptionist or two. The carpet has a dull, worm-out and lifeless look. McManus's cramped office is strewn with assorted books, papers, and memorabilia, and on the wall hangs a portrait of Marine General Chester Puller, a Korean War hero...
Tune and Walsh's choreography remains an uneven mixture as well. The show includes a few inspired numbers, as when the chorus teaches Billy how to walk and dance in top hat and tails, but many flat and dull sequences. Tune overuses the technique he employed in Broadway's A Day in Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine. A flat hides the dancers' bodies and only reveals their lower legs. After a while, the sensation makes one wish the theater included a T.V. style vertical hold control...
Lopez said this week that he found the Law School's curriculum unoriginal and dull, the faculty "particularly good at listening to you and waiting for you to go away," and the school stubbornly conservative...
Talking to a group of guidance counselors in Phoenix, A.C.M. President Charles Neff set out to dispel some myths about his region. The Midwest is not dull. It is not flat. "We do have woods and lakes and rolling hills," he said. His jocularity did not mask his mission. Said one of the counselors: "Any time someone serves you Bloody Marys and screwdrivers at noon, you know they're serious." Neff anticipated questions with a barrage of statistics: 58% of A.C.M.'s graduates find full-time employment within a year after graduation, 25% are enrolled in graduate...
Aside from a couple of dull reunions in the 21st century, the main result of the revised program, says Goldhaber, will be dentists who can "interact on a level that straight dental technology does not provide." As Goldhaber sees it, dental medicine should eventually become "a hybrid--combining the art and science of dentistry with biomedical research or with knowledge of health-care delivery systems." In short, the school now seeks to train practitioners whose skills encompass not only dentistry but also the broader field of social medicine...