Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sound-bite: All Melrose and no Beverly Hills makes Winthrop a dull house. All Melrose and no Beverly Hills makes Winthrop a dull house. All Melrose and no Beverly hills makes Winthrop a dull house...
...Ankara, Turkey. With the northeastern frontier of that country bordering on the Soviet Union, this was a prime CIA post for recruiting agents for the U.S. from the local assortment of Soviet embassy, trade and press employees. One of Ames' supervisors from that period remembers him as being dull, unsophisticated and lackadaisical. "Did what he was supposed to, went where you asked him to, but he wasn't impressive," he says. Nancy, by contrast, was "aggressive and pushy." He recalls that with the women's movement gaining momentum, Nancy, who worked for the agency on and off, was outspoken...
...however, is what getting into the Porc is all about. A prospective member of the club needs to strike a delicate balance. One can't come on too strong--"trying hard" is used as a criticism in the book. At the same time, being boring is death. "Pleasant if dull," one club member remarked of a candidate...
...fellow graduate students, far from absorbing these radical thinkers, ran off after dull, pedantic European poststructuralists, who were trapped in cynical semantic mindgames that my generation had ditched when we substituted Elvis Presley for gloom and doom Samuel Beckett. Despite their inflated reputations, none of the French theorists, including Foucaults, is competent at speculation about either history or sexuality. Those who claim otherwise are naively credulous or uninformed...
...FIRST SCENE OF WILDEST Dreams, a new tragicomedy staged by its prolific author, Alan Ayckbourn, for London's Royal Shakespeare Company, four unhappy middle-class people are enhancing dull lives with a homemade role- playing game a la Dungeons & Dragons. They speak pseudo Old English mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests...