Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring, Kamali's sweat cloths, transformed into 35 items from miniskirts to harem pants, arrived in U.S. stores. She had taken that dull, cotton fleece, a staple of Army-Navy stores, and turned it into a line of casual haute couture outfits that could be worn to offices or parties...
...remaining four songs, two are insignificant. "Deadman, Deadman" is a rather dull reggea, while "Trouble" is a loud blues that leaves the listener indifferent...
Every year in the U.S. some 3 million citizens are asked to drop everything in the rest of their lives and present themselves in court as potential jurors. The experience that awaits them can be something of an ordeal, wasteful and exasperating-and sometimes, most irritating of all, deadly dull. Reforming judges-not the least being Chief Justice Warren Burger-have challenged many aspects of this centuries-old system, and numerous courts are pioneering new computerized techniques that will speed up the whole process. Others have started to use smaller juries, streamlined rules, less-than-unanimous verdicts. The grand-jury...
...cocktail-party coaster than as a reference. Glossy and overpriced, it conceals choppy, unimaginative writing behind a startling cover. Perfect for Uncle Sid and Aunt Selma. Despite its shortcomings, however, the book offers revealing first-person descriptions of the fear war can bring without gunshots and the dull evil of obedience without purpose...
Sticky political issues collide with the pristine Harvard image set forth in news office pamphlets and fund-raising speeches even in periods of relative calm. "Things have been plain dull recently." Lord says, but her office has had to work hard on the continuing sagas of town-and-gown relations, and racial tensions on campus, as well as the occasional shenanigans of the school's professors. This spring, for instance, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor Emeritus, put himself in the middle of an international war of words when he announced that nuclear-armed American ships have docked in Japan since...