Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave up painting at the age of 30, in 1966. There is also a powerful group of sculptures by Beuys. But the artists who get the most play are those industrial-scale bores of the international art market, Baselitz, with his upside-down figures, and A.R. Penck, with his dull pseudoprimitive graffiti, along with such earnest but relatively plodding talents as K.H. Hodicke and Markus Lupertz...
When insulting students seems dull, students turn towards their courses...
...Oort Cloud, explains Berkeley's Spinrad, would consist of at least a trillion "dull blocks of ice," ranging from a few inches to a few miles in diameter. Out in that velvet blackness of space, where temperatures approach absolute zero, the snowballs remain unchanged, well beyond the effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space...
...only problem is that Subway isn't as smart as it would like to be. In fact, it really isn't smart at all. Visually, stylistically, thematically, et cetera, it comes up empty in the Brains Department. The script is banal. The acting, deadpan-dull. And the images clutter up like so many hip books on a crowded coffee table. With the possible exception of Gremlins, Joe Dante's unintentionally horrific testament to the decline of Western Civilization, Subway may be the most completely offensive, manipulative, and downright irritating picture in recent memory...
...Because life in Washington is so deadly dull, so paralyzed," Dukakis said, "the center for creative and innovative activity has moved to the state capital." Dukakis pointed to the recent elections in Virginia and New Jersey of progressive governors and cited several Kennedy School alumni in his administration for innovative policies...