Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watson is critical of all his scientific colleagues at Cambridge and in London. But he is even more critical of the lesser scientists who were not his colleagues, and who form the bulk of the profession. "A goodly number of scientists," he writes, "are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid...
WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard excoriates the bourgeoisie in this savage satire, which would be sharper if its Maoist political harangues were not so dull...
...that he attempts any solemn pronouncements on "The American Character"--Cooke is too wary and talented a journalist to tackle a subject as tangled and usually as dull as that. Rather, he gives an idea of what might be termed American styles--of how various Americans operate, of why class distinctions break down at baseball games or, of all places, at the Kentucky Derby...
...again, the actors (Pollock and Ward Abronski) are convincing on the surface. They look and, with a few lapses, talk like hoods. But when they are not perpetrating evil, when they are just talking among themselves like two life-sentence criminals waiting it out in jail, the play becomes dull...
Dear World--A relentlessly dull musical, with little but the beautiful Angela Lansbury to recommend it. Joe Layton has just become this show's third director to date, and Jerry Herman wrote the unhelpful score. Pre-Broadway try-out at the COLONIAL...