Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable . . . The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity...
...current directors took the play at farce value, and acted accordingly. They have come up with a show that is fast, funny, and fluid (in more senses than one). There is not one dull moment. And there is not one inferior performance: every player is at least up to par, and most of them far above it. Praise could be distributed simply by listing the entire roster of performers...
...stage the show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen. Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier. What the actors are saying or singing comes blaring out of a dozen stereophonic loudspeakers in such volume that the spectator almost continually feels trapped in the middle of a cheering section...
Pure Rascality. After that, Demara promised himself to straighten out and make a new man of himself: Demara. But somehow it seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them...
...collects rubber bands, bubble gum, matchboxes, unmatched gloves, old typewriter ribbons and dull pencils. She is prone to the sulks, unwinds by tossing dishes at her husband, and coddles a breakfast taste for hot fudge sundaes. All this, burbling forth from a lithe, long-legged, freckled, near-perfect frame (34-24-34), Puts Shirley MacLaine in a new category; expert Hollywood status seekers consider her so far out that she is in, way in. Shirley, at 25, is the brightest face, the freshest character and the most versatile new talent in Hollywood...