Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readily recognizable art played second fiddle at the Whitney, except for a couple of standout pictures. Jack Levine's Act of Legislature-a dull-looking chap in a toga stabbing a half-naked girl-was a vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished...
...Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of dull romantic room in the show. And Dancer Anita Alvarez, who is always good for an eccentric specialty or two, is foolishly converted into a standby...
Take nine players, throw them into a living room, knock out a wall and give them an audience. Without action the result is liable to be dull exposition of the ordinary topics of life, unless a catalytic agent is inserted. In the present production by the Brattle Hall players, George Bernard Shaw is the catalyst; his magic transforms the discussion into an amusing, intelligent play which the actors handle in a most capable manner...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this double-header are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...
...varsity was not no ever powering as the score indicates. It was a fairly dull match because the visitors offered real competition in only two classes (186 and 155) and because several of Batch Jordan's men, particularly Bob Claflin, looked uncertain at their new weights...