Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cohen's foremost argument centers around Cuomo's involvement in the New York races for lieutenant governor and the U.S. Senate. Cohen's distaste for the candidates' "dull" and "boring" nature and lack of "discernible oratorical flair" seems ridiculous in a discussion which otherwise exhorts substance over "flash" as does Cohen's odd, death-wish request that Cuomo support for candidates which are a "threat to him" and "challenge his hold on the bully pulpit...
...talk funny, man," one spoke up, scratching his head and squinting at me in dull distrust. "Like one of them beach faggots...
...that would be dull. But it should at least know what it wants. In the '70s the government was telling us to drive safely and save fuel--now they seem to want wastefulness and wanton destruction. I think they must have gotten their domestic and Central American policies mixed...
Fourteen years of lies in the controlled Philippine press, once the most respected institution in the old Republic, did not dull the appetite for truth - or save the dictatorship from it. Marcos had the media and the guns, we had the truth . . . The media are effective as the instruments of truth, from which they draw their real power. The media do not make or unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with...
...relieve the hardness and social tension of new post-Bauhaus buildings with an organic metaphor, how to dress up a civic space without commemorating anything in particular. At the same time, people in the street found that his work spoke to them in a way that some dull tangle of official I beams could...