Word: dullness
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Great musicians know that the rooms where they play have personalities - bright or dull or warm or clear. Great actors say the same thing about the theaters where they work. And when Kevin Spacey explains why he just became artistic director of London's Old Vic theater - and why he wants to rescue the splendid old place from the ravages of time - he talks about its acoustic character. "There are some theaters where an actor's voice goes out into a void," he says. "You can't feel where it's going, and therefore can't control how the performance...
...absence of a dull edge, a yearly Crimson post-exam hallmark, may have resulted from a change instituted this year by Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni. Instead of a traditional January exhibition game, Mazzoleni and his coaching staff staged a three-day training camp to get the players back on their games...
...wishy-washiness might be excusable if Sterling did not commit the first sin of politics and TV: it's dull, with all of West Wing's sanctimony and none of its humor and character. On the other hand, CBS's Queens Supreme (Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.), starring former West Wing regular Oliver Platt as a colorful, politically embattled judge, has humor and character to a fault. No lack of excitement here: in the three episodes sent to critics, Platt has a gun pointed at him three times and sings show tunes twice. All this action and some snappy dialogue bring...
...Midwesterner of the Wasp persuasion, which means he is solid, stolid and silent, except when exchanging arm's-length pleasantries with his friends. Like so many men of his class and place, he has bent himself to a job (as an insurance company actuary) that is at once dull and intricate and to a city (Omaha, Neb.) where the agreed-upon illusion is stability. Schmidt is probably in touch with certain things: his football team, his wife's tuna-noodle casserole and, at this season of the year, his snowblower. What he is not in touch with is his feelings...
These schools argued that widening class credit would dull an important fundraising tool and cost them millions of dollars...