Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Tony gone, things were pretty dull. Without the Moynihan flair, his merry circle of Mayfair friends were reduced to such joyless pleasures as dropping Coke bottles from party windows and wishing wanly that Tony would return. Last week Tony indeed came back...
...dialogue which accompanies these events shows a few infrequent flashes of wit, but for the most part vacillates between the dull and the incredible. "The legend of the Raintree is the age-old tale of man's quest for the unattainable.... It is the very tree of life to him who finds it. Its ways are the ways of pleasantness and its paths all lead to peace, to happiness, to the secret of life itself." The actors deserve no little credit for making this sort of twaddle sound much less unlikely on the screen than it looks in print...
...know," he said, "Eskimos are so dull they fascinate me. I guess I never told you about my Epic of Nanook bit this summer, did I?" He began stirring his ice briskly and his eyes brightened with a nostalgic glaze. "You know how simple most of the people working in the hotel were--these Iowa farm girls and Utah types--really from the sticks. Well, I told them I was majoring in Eskimo Studies at Harvard. They weren't very impressed and I guess they even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said...
...York Herald Tribune suggested on its editorial page last week what an editorial page should be about. "Reading most newspaper editorials these days," wrote the new chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...weak moment Gossipist Walter Winchell confided to his readers: "The reason I talk fast is that if I talk slowly people will be able to hear what I say and find out how dull and unimportant it really is." But for his return to TV last week on ABC's filmed crime series, The Walter Winchell File, the columnist-turned-actor slowed down his Teletype voice; what he said was still unimportant but, thanks in considerable part to a good script by ex-New York Daily Mirror Reporter Adrian Spies, never dull. The story concerned a psychopathic killer...