Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonderment still serve him well after all these years; his narration of a flight he took in a B-1 bomber last year vividly captured the sights, sounds and fears. Joan Lunden, who has shared a homey set with Hartman since 1980, has sharpened what once were rather dull interviewing skills. Yet the duo rarely engage in the spontaneous banter of Gumpaul...
NONE OF THIS IS to say that the Summer School catalog is a dull read for the true liberal artist. A collection of interesting and challenging courses can be found mixed in with the likes of "Crucial Issues in Landscape Creation and Perception" (VISU...
...Giotto, Duccio, Van Gogh." Doubtless this list will change if he tries a ceiling, but Schnabel has never learned to draw; in graphic terms, his art has barely got beyond the lumpy pastiches of Max Beckmann and Richard Lindner he did as a student in Houston. The dull, uninflected megalomania of his kitsch- expressionist imagery (Sex, Death, God and Me) is rant, a bogus "appropriation" of profundity...
...sooner or later paddle into the mainstream. McCrae and Call join the mythic flow by stealing a herd of Mexican cattle and driving them from Texas to Montana. Why leave semiretirement and undertake a journey better suited for younger men? One answer is that Lonesome Dove would be a dull book if the two remained proprietors of the Hat Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking...
...grind an ax or two, as students of Margaret Mead now know. But Barley believes that most anthropologists pursue fieldwork for its cheery reminiscences and lifelong opportunities to one-up colleagues who have never traveled. Experience abroad, he says, confers a "valuable aura of eccentricity upon the really rather dull denizens of anthropology departments...