Word: dulling
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...with long, permed hair, is sitting with two girlfriends on a wooden bench when she hatches the plan. This grassy park adjacent to their former junior high is where they kill their afternoons, smoking joints or Marlboros, sniffing thinner, whatever it takes to escape their boring homes and their dull parents and a tedious night of pretending to do homework and then sneaking out to work at the cabaret...
...families in trouble, babies often represent a last chance at salvation, a belief that somehow their innocence and purity can breathe new life into something gone dull or awry. In the giant, dysfunctional family that is modern Japan, then, the birth of a baby princess on Saturday offers, at long last, a glimmer of hope, some feel-good news to lift the collective spirit and hold out the promise of a national rejuvenation. And maybe even boost the stock market. An absurd notion, sure, but there hasn't been much of anything to cheer about in Japan...
...expression are eerily reminiscent of Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits. Yet while the patterns may look pretty, the ultimate effect of the paintings is very unimpressive. The repeated layering of the dots tends to dissolve the bright colors of the bottom pages, and the result is a dull, washed-out background. While well drawn, the watercolor over-paintings lack emotion and often don’t convincingly address the themes of place and dislocation...
...Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: “Harvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made...
...Class of 1880, returned to Mother Harvard to accept an honorary doctorate in 1902, he bellowed disapproval at his alma mater. Biographer Edmund Morris tells the story with typically vivid prose: “Harvard, to Theodore, was a temple defiled by mugwumps, who congregated here to exchange the dull coins of anti-imperialism. Roosevelt launched into a stentorian defense of his island administrations and the public servants who sacrificed their careers to help ‘weaker friends along the stony and difficult path of self-government.’” Earlier that day, Roosevelt had made...