Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their completion with various actors seeking their Oscars. The year was a good one for Pasternak, Castro, and Charles de Gaulle, who became immortalized by being named Time's Man of the Year, barely edging out Al Vellucci for the honor. But, with few exceptions, the plot was pretty dull, and most people sat back and waited for the short subjects. They came, in the form of hula hoops, mixed-mortality TV westerns, a talking satellite, and higher prices for vicuna coats...
Despite Iranian predictions that there will be an "announcement" next month, the Italian press insisted that the marriage would be "impossible." Epoca cried: "Let's forget state complications. He is a sad and tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could...
...things can be as dull as satires on Hollywood except possibly satires on psychiatrists, but NBC's Omnibus this week combined both in a show that, in its half dozen best moments, reached comically irrational heights rare on TV. The hour-long (and far too slow-paced) show: Malice in Wonderland, by lampooning, lapidating S. J. Perelman, veteran of movie-writing stints (Around the World in 80 Days). Most of Malice enmeshed Dr. Randolph Kalbfus (Keenan Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund...
...second volume in the Age of Roosevelt series--The Coming of the New Deal--establishes his claims in all these departments and cements his reputation for wit and clarity of organization. Of course, it would require a particularly inferior historian to make a dull story out of material provided by the chaotic first two years of the New Deal. But Schlesinger has given new depth to the history with which he worked and has produced a book of singular power...
Record performances by Henry Abbott and Ed Bailey brightened an otherwise dull showing by the Crimson track team in last Saturday's K. of C. invitational meet. Abbott set a new University shot put mark with a 51 ft., 6 in. heave, and Bailey threw the 35-lb. weight 51 ft., 11 in. to break his own freshman record...