Word: dulling
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...Stewart host. In fact, let Jon Stewart host every awards show. For anything. Ever. After a painfully dull monologue by Garry Shandling - who spent the entire time rocking wildly back and forth, as if he couldn't wait to dash off stage - Stewart killed with a you-can't-make-this-up highlight reel of TV news sensationalism over the war on terror (capped off with NBC News' Chris Jansing seriously asking an expert, "What can you tell us about Hispanic Muslims?"). "For too long," Stewart said, "the TV news industry has sacrificed its integrity for cheap entertainment value...
...boys there are completely dull, you know, they definitely don’t go to college. But I am definitely the exception there,” she said. “It’s hard to relate to people there...
...mastermind Hambali by Thai police [WORLD, Aug. 25] demonstrates that police work in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand can result in the capture of terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's preferred policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. PAUL KUNINO LYNCH Katoomba, Australia...
...acknowledged American deaths, with the capture of only a few terrorists. But during the same time, police in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand have captured terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. Paul Kunino Lynch Katoomba, Australia...
...begun to use cannabis earlier, I would have avoided making some choices I now regret. The worst career choice I ever made was to enter psychoanalytic training. Although I became skeptical about some aspects of psychoanalytic theory during that time, my qualms were not sufficient to dull the enthusiasm with which I began treating patients psychoanalytically in 1967. It was not until the mid-’70s, shortly after I began to smoke marijuana, that my emerging doubts about the therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis began to make me uncomfortable. The evenings when I smoke marijuana provide, among other things...