Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price. Between 1976 and 1982, Italy boosted exports to the U.S. by 250%; it now accounts for more than half of all imported wines sold in the U.S. Meanwhile, in Italy as in France, domestic consumption of wine has steadily decreased. "This generation," notes Agriculture Department Wine Specialist Rex Dull, "wants le Coca-Cola and le whisky." In the U.S., prices of foreign wines are substantially lower in large part because of the strong dollar...
Eighty spirited voices rose above the organ, singing: "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power/ Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?" But before the worshipers had finished the first hymn, they heard a series of dull thuds. Suddenly, an elder of the church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern...
...principle of universal complicity is not always to be taken seriously; feeling guilty does not necessarily make one so. Adler is unusually skilled at making careful distinctions and refreshing subjects that have grown dull with familiarity. She can imaginatively argue that constitutional law is based on precepts of storytelling and find probable cause for adultery in the legend of Penelope, Ulysses' wife and a classic symbol of fidelity...
When Hardwick is so constrained by the limitations of her subject, her writing shines. All too often, though, she darts to and fro without ever leaving a firm point of departure. Her reviews are concerned with stylistic pyrotechnics, while her general essays are generally impenetrable. Hardwick is never dull however, and one reads on simply to decipher her meaning. That the essays are compelling despite their impenetrability is a measure of Hardwick's skill" unfortunately, these essays do not other the reader concrete proof of Hardwick's talent, only the illusory promise...
...White, 30, is the author of The Official Lawyer's Handbook, but you can bet your convertible debentures that this volume of dos and don'ts will not win an award from the American Bar Association. Lawyers, according to White, are an avaricious bunch of dull drudges who want to do you out of your life savings. One might give careful consideration to pleading guilty and going to prison before hiring one, White suggests. Is he serious? A little. The Official Lawyer's Handbook (Simon & Schuster; $5.95), published this month, is a book of cutting humor that...