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Word: dullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nahal Hemar discovery should banish forever any popular notions that Neolithic man was brutish and dull. "He fashioned jewelry and elaborate textiles and traded to the north and south," declares Tamar Noy, a curator of prehistory at the museum. "These objects are so exquisite that they give us a new view of what our ancestors were like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cave Cache | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

Kushner nodded and took a note. The official hypothesized without even bothering to check any facts: "If the Bank of America computer goes down, you're talking $500 million a day. Four days and a bank is history." He said that "data-processing managers are dull schmucks" and that what they offer is a "dull sale" and that was why the humor consultant was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...song. Though the play's sexual and religious stereotypes occasionally border on the risque, the levity with which the actors execute their roles keeps even the most devout of Catholics from taking offense. Moreover, because the actors perform so well as an ensemble, the production rarely allows for a dull moment...

Author: By David H. Polluck, | Title: Starting Much Too Late | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...warm weather finally arrives in Cambridge it's time for a spring cleaning-and not just clearing all the dust, dirty socks and pizza boxes out of you closet. Spring cleaning traditionally also means throwing out that dull, tired winter style for something that reflects the new season...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: What's New in Hair | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

...ironically named New African Church. Reverend Phillips is also active in the civil rights movement. Sarah recalls Sunday sermons punctuated by Baptist baptisms with the same uneasiness she feels about the historic March on Washington, in which her parents participated. To the young Sarah, the civil rights movement seems "dull, a necessary burden on my conscience, like good grades or hungry people in India." For a girl whose most dramatic bouts with racism are social snubs at a prep school, the battles of the '60's seem far away. Sarah is brought up among other prosperous Blacks and whites...

Author: By Natine Pinede, | Title: Taking Sides | 3/13/1985 | See Source »

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