Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshmen finished breakfast yesterday morning, workers were already drilling holes into the stone frame that surrounds the passage. After fastening the two dull black door sections in place, they painted the gate glossy black. By lunchtime, the paint on the gate was almost...
...Dance Class, 1873-76; the tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape, 1868-69); a laundress's yawn; the stoned heaviness of an absinthe drinker's posture before the dull green phosphorescence of her glass; the exact port of a dandy's cane; the professional absorption of the petits rats of the ballet corps; the look in a whore's eye as she sizes up her client; the revealing clutter on a writer's desk...
...main upholder of the traditional nuclear family this fall is Roseanne. Pudgy comedian Roseanne Barr plays a working-class mom grappling with a dull factory job, three hyperactive kids and her lazy but lovable porker of a husband (John Goodman). Barr's sullen sarcasm -- a cross between Erma Bombeck and Alice Kramden -- is a cry of revolt against years of cheery sitcom parents. Says Mom after the kids run out the door: "Quick, they're gone. Change the locks...
Morton, who leads his team in receiving with 379 yards on 22 catches, is shining on a dull squad. Sometimes, he admits, it is hard to keep his engine running when the bus is going nowhere...
...TODAY: THE TELEVISION SHOW (syndicated, debuting Sept. 12). MOST OF US ARE TIRED OF DULL NETWORK NEWS. At least, that's the operating principle behind this much touted video version of McPaper, which will offer a zippy nightly wrap-up of news, sports and features...