Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is not a dull or unperfected moment in this year's outstanding Boston Ballet performance of The Nutcracker. Featuring the familiar and well-loved Tchaikovsky score, beautiful and exotic fairy-tale scenery by Helen Senn and Herbert Pond, and exquisite costumes by the British designer David Walker, The Nutcracker provides a wonderful way to celebrate the holiday season while enjoying the best ballet dancing of the year...
...Charis, and her airy speculations on numerology; Charis relates that seven is "two threes and a one, which [she] prefers because threes are graceful pyramids as well as a goddess number." This characterization, as well as the descriptions of Roz's stereotyped homosexual assistant Bryce, might be crude or dull if it wasn't tempered with a whimsical compassion. Here Atwood's specialty is the grim glee she takes in detailing the disaster that Roz, Tony and Charis invite into their lives along with Zenia...
Sonfields': Turkey of course. A seventeen pounder, roasted to a perfect tenderness with a ton of dark meat; the chef's assistant was amazed at how easily he carved the bird. And more than enough for left-overs. Too bad turkey is so dull. But it made a good curry and a good Monte Cristo sandwich the next...
...opinion are the experts so unanimous as that the future belongs to the knowledge worker, master of his PC, fiber-optics whatsit, E-mail gizmo and whatever takes its place. One of the best windows into the future is supplied by an Austin, Texas, company with the rather dull name of Applied Materials Inc. Its founders set out quite deliberately to build a manufacturing facility for the 21st century, and since 1991 they have become the world's largest makers of machinery to produce computer chips...
...there's no Mag Log Book, and that's probably for the best. Memoirs can be painful. And dull...