Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tone of self-mockery is reinforced by the inclusion of a "random Cole Porter song" at the beginning of the show. Unfortunately, "Two Little Babes in the Woods" a 1924 Porter composition, is probably the best number in the show, setting unrealistically high expectations for an otherwise dull performance...
Levine's strong performance provides a cornerstone to the show, and her constant stage presence frequently saves otherwise dull scenes...
...twelve-member orchestra, conducted by Matthew Tap, is exceptionally strong, and provides energy to some otherwise dull musical numbers. Occassional orchestral interjections, rim-shots for bad jokes and a hilarious interplay between trumpeter Roy Groth and emcee Schaffer on the "lip-sync trumpet," add nice color to the performance...
...York studio; every hair on the tiny llamas looks right. Yet those who thought Church's paintings of Cotopaxi were faithful to the primal scene of nature were wrong. They were more than faithful; they were, so to speak, ecstatic. Nobody could call the view of Cotopaxi dull, but when Church saw it in 1853, it completely lacked the palms, writhing creepers, streams and waterfalls he would later give it. "The big mountain," he wrote to a friend, "grimly secludes itself in an immense circle of volcanic and comparatively barren country." The nearest palms were a hundred miles away...
...Churchill, who was also Man of the Year for 1940. The other two were, like Gorbachev, communists: Stalin and China's Deng Xiaoping (1978 and 1985). Will Gorbachev make it again? Stay with us as we embark on a new decade that promises to be anything but dull...