Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrative cogwheel at Princeton, most students were unfazed by the changes and went on about their business. Campus-wide issues at Princeton don't attract the excitement and fury they do at Harvard. This year has been especially quiet and was termed "depoliticized" by one frustrated activist and "almost dull" by Andy Brown, who graduated from Princeton' at the height of student turbulence in the 1960s. "It's a little discouraging, actually, that this year has been so quiet," said Brown...
...fantasy and glamour" of the muscles and brawn of the hunks on TV [April 4] grow dull. The charm, humor, sensitivity and style of Remington Steele (Pierce Brosman) stimulate...
Even one who never tires of a show like Gilbert and Sullivan's musical, HMS Pinafore, recognizes that it often suffers from amateurish performances. Usually such reproductions are filled with stilted stunts and puny actors drowned out by the bass violin, choppy set changes, dull staging. Nonetheless, most Gilbert and Sullivan shows never lose their musical vibrance or lyrical hilarity--all that's needed is singers strong enough to enunciate the clever lines and be heard above the orchestra. But the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players production of HMS Pinafore and the one-act Trial by Jury surpass all expectations...
...they do. Their dripping, sticky hands shine under the dull purple stage lights, coloring the rest of the scene--as the assassins proclaim their innocence and lofty motive to the populace--in lurid ironies...
MASSACHUSETTS Democratic leaders proved last weekend that their skills in manipulation are still intact. They tacked onto a standard issues convention a nonbinding preference poll, and a dull weekend in Springfield was transformed into a national media event--"a meeting of the leaders of the free world," according to one such aspiring leader, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale...