Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press was among the first to benefit when freedom came to East Germany. Censorship fell with the Wall. Hard-line editors retired or were fired. The dull, gray Communist Party daily Neues Deutschland, so lickspittle that it once published 26 photos of Erich Honecker in a single edition, lightened up with a fresh design and uncensored stories. The daily Berliner Zeitung shed its communist ties and became East Berlin's liveliest and most popular newspaper. Junge Welt, once a loyal youth tabloid, turned muckraker overnight...
...ConAgra doesn't like to take its rise to prominence too seriously. Known for cultivating a kind of down-home whimsy about itself, the company deflatingly titled its corporate history ConAgra Who? Chairman Charles ("Mike") Harper, 62, intends to keep things that way. "We are so simple, we're dull," he contends. Such modesty can be misleading. When Harper arrived in 1974, ConAgra was a nearly bankrupt company involved mainly in grain milling and commodities trading. He embarked on an expansion plan to place ConAgra at every step along "the food chain," as Harper likes to call it, from seed...
SOME AMERICANS ABROAD. Hard as it is to imagine why anyone thought the pretensions and crotchets of some second-rate college professors on tour in England would make a play, it's harder still to comprehend why the deadly dull result is transferring to Broadway. It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better...
...minimalist, to say the least, but the paucity of props works because the stage is usually full of performers. The cast is energetic, and there are so many interesting characters that there is never a dull moment...
...families of the 58,022 U.S. servicemen and -women who died in Indochina, the war continues as a dull ache, a pain shared by the kin of the millions of Vietnamese killed on both sides. For most other Americans, Vietnam is as much a mystery as it was 25 years ago, when apprehensive Marines in full battle gear first waded onto the beaches near Danang. But the mystery has long been stripped of its innocence and is shrouded instead in guilt and recrimination...