Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prominent "Adults Only" signs, there is little in the film which might corrupt youths. To be sure, a discussion of what might be called the metaphysics of sexuality forms the core of the picture, buit it is treated with such careful circumspection that the result is little more than dull...
...lyrics were the work of Jay Cavior while Victor Ziskin composed the music. The two gentlemen have splashed their considerable talent all over On the Rocks and time and time again the result is sparkling. A few of the lyrics are unexciting and some of the music is dull, but these are the exceptions as the audience is always tapping, sometimes humming, occasionally clapping in beat with the kick line, and once joined in for the chorus of a calypso number...
Hanford said that he "never experienced a dull moment" in his life as dean. Reminiscing about some of the unusual problems he had to face, he mentioned the stealing of the Sacred Cod and the time two Californians got lost in the Maine woods. He also told of the time several Harvard men photographed the stolen Yale Bulldog licking hamburger off the toe of John Harvard...
...brainstorming session took place on Laboratory, an experimental program on Boston's young (22 months) WGBH-TV, the only nonprofit educational station in the Northeast.* By insisting on distinction, and paying the occasional penalty of seeming dull, WGBH-TV has not only built up a loyal audience, but also finds ways to draw Bostonians away from the more frenetic fare of the commercial networks. It accomplishes this on a $400,000 annual budget, roughly the cost of one network spectacular. Of that amount, one fourth comes from the $3,000,000 endowment of its proud, richly endowed parent...
Every Day a Festival. When Gabriele Munter first met Kandinsky in Munich at the beginning of the century, she was a sad-faced girl with brown hair and big eyes, who longed to paint. Kandinsky, who at 30 with his young wife had fled a dull job as an economics professor in Russia, was already the leader of a group of independent artists, and taught painting at their school. Gabriele became his favorite student. He kept her after class, took her on painting jaunts. The following year they left on a five-year tour of Europe and North, Africa...