Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors set out to write a congressional cousin to to Theodore H. White's Making of the President books. What they would up writing was a long news story. It's a good story, if a bit dull and academic, with neat tables of poll data and primary election results. It will provide nice raw information some day for Government these by the babies that Jim Roosevelt kissed...
...ever start to drink at all? The short answer is that initially it made me feel better. Alcohol numbed my self-awareness, the same trick that it performs for nonalcoholic drinkers at cocktail parties. The difference is that normal drinkers dull their self-consciousness only slightly, the better to socialize. I very quickly tried to send all my thoughts and feelings about myself to oblivion. Psychologically, I was undoubtedly depressed when I began to overcome my well-founded but ill-understood fears about alcohol: my father died when I was a sophomore. For whatever reason, I spent the better part...
...check on his holdings. The line was usually busy. On Oct. 20, the day after Black Monday, Fidelity was fielding six calls a second. "Then it hit me: Why am I acting like this over mutual funds? They're not supposed to be exciting. They're supposed to be dull and safe." Though he did not sell, he is no longer sure his money is secure. Sighs Jayson: "The comfort factor is gone...
...dramatic terms, the Afrikaners' credo: white lives mean more. Piling on bogus suspense devices as Woods snakes his way toward freedom, Attenborough lets the venality of South African imperialism degenerate into a staid chase film: The Brady Bunch Flees Apartheid. Once again Attenborough has proved that the road to dull is paved with good intentions...
Sammy & Rosie is never dull. Indeed, it shrinks from the ordinary as it does from decorum, balance or coherence. Kureishi and Director Stephen Frears, who two years ago collaborated on the low-budget My Beautiful Laundrette, have - no time for the dramatic verities. They're breathless with all the hot news inside them. In his diary that accompanies the film's published screenplay, Kureishi describes Sammy & Rosie as his usual "mixture of realism and surrealism, seriousness and comedy, art and gratuitous sex . . . All the bits and pieces will just have to get along with each other, like people...