Word: dulling
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...moments, he adds a zap of color: a bird, a butterfly, or blood. It's a transcendent effect. The meter of the poem comes from the layout. Most pages are diptychs, with both sides of the book working as individual panels that form a larger image. Never one to dull the eye, Drooker occasionally breaks these up into smaller panels, most noticeably as the woman gets lost in the confinement of the city...
BEST DIRTY LAUNDRY internalmemos.com This latest project from Philip Kaplan, the man who brought us the profanely named rumor mill F_____dCompany.com bills itself as the Internet's largest collection of corporate memos and other internal communications. A great idea, simply executed--so long as you can bypass the dull stuff and ferret out the juicy tidbits (like a list of 467 employee salaries at Terra Lycos). Kaplan says he just posts whatever people send him; some memos (the ones he thinks will have wide appeal) are free, whereas others are accessible only to subscribers paying $45 a month...
...something endearing (and surreal) about these grown men—backed by DJ Mr. Dibbs, who could probably shatter a turntable with his forehead—pouring out their hearts in the most confrontational, hoarse-throated manner possible. Lyrical prowess and mic charisma became tools for assuaging fears of dull futures, wrecked love and artistic failure. That songs such as Atmosphere’s tinkling piano ballad “Abusing of the Rib” and the startlingly mundane anthem “Like Today” could incite such gleeful abandon is an achievement that surely cannot...
...Eight a.k.a. Sydney), in 1997 writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene with Boogie Nights, an energetic and volatile film that focused on the southern California pornography industry in the 1970s and 1980s. The film became an instant critical and audience favorite. In an era where films were dull and lifeless it lived and breathed, and the swooping and panning camera reflected the director’s intoxication with the possibilities of the medium. Soon all eyes were on Anderson. How would he follow up such a huge success? Rumor had it that Anderson wanted to try his hand...
...President must have known his tinkering would take some of the oomph out of an election campaign, which in Pakistan is usually as thunderous, and joyfully welcomed, as the yearly monsoon. But Musharraf prefers it dull, and that is how it is: the Pakistan Muslim League and the PPP combined normally get more than 50% of the popular vote, but now their camps are apathetic, producing one of the dullest campaigns in memory. What Musharraf did not expect was the force that has filled the vacuum: an alliance of six hard-line religious parties that calls itself the Muttahidda Majlis...