Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kate Simon, best known as the author of guidebooks, is one of those rare writers who is preternaturally incapable of composing a dull sentence. Here, for example, are the pickings of a random sampling of her work. A description of a Canal Street flea market from New York Places and Pleasures: "Inside, a sizable jungle of loose white and tan shoelaces, Dracula banks which need batteries for pushing out a pale green hand to grasp a coin, among the books one volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young...
...first half of the film was dull and ludicrous, it was a party compared to the second half. Instead of having diplomats work out a peaceful settlement of the hijacking crisis, as was actually the case, the Delta Force is called in. This group of "real" Americans is given the go-ahead to invade Beirut, to free the hostages, and then to escape in the hijacked 747. The possibility of failure is never even considered...
...leading a Girl Scout troop, working in day-care units and raising money for the local hospital. Teaching full time, she won a reputation as an innovator, devising new courses on practical aspects of the law and on American women. Life inside Room 305 at Concord High was never dull. "In her classroom there was always something going on," said Principal Charles Foley. "There were always plans...
...when a Yugoslav official offered some excuses for terrorism. But for the most part his public utterances are studiedly bland and numbingly repetitious. In Shultzspeak, the invariable progress report on any problem is that "we're working at it." Even his wife Helena has complained, "George, you sound so dull...
...Quad Alley. Oh, sure, driving a low-riding car over them can be killers on your axles, not to mention your muffler. But they slow down the shuttle so you can catch up to it if you miss its departure, and the bumps make an otherwise-dull bicycle ride a fun-filled adventure...