Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, we have our five- and 10- and 30-minute speeches all the time, and their principal effect is to dull our senses. Can anybody remember a single Saturday presidential radio address? A single State of the Union response? Or, for that matter, a single State of the Union address...
...attitude of its predecessor. Here, communication with extraterrestrials is a very big deal, though there's nary a conventional alien (if there is such a thing) to be seen. The result is a thoughtful, honorably conceived film, with all the best intentions in the world, that, alas, is frequently dull and lacking in imagination, and drags to a downright anticlimactic climax...
Standing in front of a dull blue curtain wearing a lifeless gray suit and a blue tie, the Guv looked like he belonged on local cable access TV. But Bill Weld doesn't care what he looks like. He's not running for Senate and he's certainly not running for president. Instead, the governor has the taste of margaritas in his mouth and is thinking only of escaping The Hub with his camera-shy wife...
...decadent scent of Collapsed Empire is heavy--and panting adoration of America is its choices perfume. On American Election Day last November, Clinton's victory was hailed with vicarious, supplicant glee by flying the American flag on the college tower. The most memorable college anecdote is the mind-numbingly dull story of how Clinton visited the college for a walkabout ("three indentical helicopters landed in Christ Church Meadwo--and then he shook all our hands...
Bedford is a torpid southern Indiana stone-quarry hamlet where the politics are dull, racial disputes are rare, and crime is so infrequent that Mayor John Williams boasts that his home has no lock on the front door. But bring up hospital loyalties--an allegiance some Bedford families have solemnly passed down for three generations--and townspeople are likely to get agitated. "You don't get the care you need there," 86-year-old Martha Terrell, a Dunn patient of 50 years' standing, says of the institution she won't patronize. "Whenever anyone new moves to town, I tell them...