Word: dulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...magazine about sex” stacked up to anything more than smut, I had a copy picked up from H Bomb’s release party on Monday night. I shouldn’t say I was pleasantly surprised—I found the feature articles dull, the poetry overwrought and the interviews middling. But the co-founders’ glib pronouncement on the editor’s note that the magazine “Isn’t quite what you expected, is it?” holds true enough...
...guys go into each game believing that when it comes to the Xs and Os, no one has a better plan. That gives a player a huge advantage because it lets him think he has secrets. That's what Belichick does for his players. Plus, he's not as dull as people think. Heck, he goes to Bon Jovi concerts! I once told Bill I had a video of him dancing at one of those concerts. He had this frightened look in his eyes, so there must be some tape of him out there. --By PHIL SIMMS, CBS broadcaster...
...London. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (Adele Jerista), the world traveler, Lady Nijo (Scottie Thompson), a former courtesan in the Japanese court, Pope Joan (Emma Firestone ’05), the only woman to ever hold the papal office, Dull Gret (Emily J. Carmichael ’04), the subject of a Bruegel painting, and Patient Griselda (Sarah E. Curtis ’05), the obedient wife from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The women not so much share their stories over the dinner table...
...surf mountains of intelligence reports for the latest potential threat to Americans. These are the men and women of the year-old Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). As they sit at gray, modular workstations equipped with secure computer terminals and phones, their toil is long and arduous but never dull. "It's day right now in half the world, so this shift's pretty fast paced," says an official. "In another hour, it's morning prayers in East Africa. It's morning already in Kabul...
...Indiana Senator and former Governor might not carry his conservative home state but could help in neighboring Ohio, a key swing state with 20 Electoral College votes. The boyish-looking moderate is not a fireball, though. A Kerry-Bayh ticket could be dull and duller...