Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's inherently dull plot accentuates these character problems. As the film opens, Gundzinger is planning to return to New York for her father's wedding. He is marrying a woman she dislikes intensely--for absolutely no logical reason. It's a plot we've seen before, as we watch the two sides of the family acquainting themselves at the obligatory pre-wedding fete in a restaurant. We sit through another child's lament about a perfectly reasonable second marriage. The situation does not in the least seems traumatic, but Clayburgh plays the extreme neurotic, raging about how she doesn...
...Still, dull camerawork and cliched setting leave room for interesting subplots. We see Ben struggling to reestablish his identity after an injury forces his premature retirement from a promising baseball career. And we see Kate's dad and Ben's mother finding happiness together in their September years while their children founder about looking to become "connected...
...large. Lord, how the nation hates Washington. Ask any Texan or Vermonter or whomever, and he will chew your ear off about that godless pile on the Potomac, that lobby-choked mausoleum, that fat, besotted . . . and you can throw in tasteless while you're at it. And dull...
...Dull. Sure, there are plenty of new restaurants in Washington, but with a couple of exceptions, all the food tastes as if it were prepared in a central kitchen located at K Street and Connecticut Avenue. Sure, there is the Kennedy Center. But where are the renegade artists and the experimental playwrights? Where are the writers? Every couple of years, someone will produce an article on the literary life in Washington, in which Herman Wouk's name is trotted out like the tsar's jewels. To be fair, there is no literary society in any American city...
...more subjective grievances - that Washingtonians are power mad, detached and dull - it is first of all an impertinent accusation to level at those (and there are more all the time) who live in Washington wholly removed from the power circles. There are plenty of D.C, dentists whose closest contact with the Government is the left incisor of a Senator's niece. But even for those at the heart of the heart of the Government, that element of detachment from one's fellows is neither surprising nor condemnable. Since they are tied to one center, it would be difficult...