Word: dullness
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...familiar scene: A man in his mid-30s waits outside a courtroom, his eyes dull, his posture slack. An attorney sits nearby, trying to ignite some optimism in his client - maybe it won't be so bad - but the man knows better. He knows because he's already tested the system so many times. He's been arrested with cocaine, heroin, marijuana, not to mention various and sundry pills. He knows he's betrayed pledges to get clean, and turned his back on years of rehab. Now it's time for him to pay his debt to society once again...
...wide and people drive fast, many of them in late-model Japanese and Korean cars blasting a mix of Western and Arab pop music. Besides a few leftover buildings from the Italian era and a collection of high-rises overlooking the sea, Tripoli's architecture consists mostly of the dull and functional. But the corniche is wide, well paved and clean, with cafés and colored parasols and some children's toboggans, jungle gyms and a merry-go-round. With an epic leap of the imagination, one can almost be reminded of the French Riviera - except that the promenade...
...charge consumers full price--something no politician wants to do. "I'm not raising rates; forget it," he says. He has been talking "almost every day" to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to assess how the financial markets might react to various bailout scenarios. "People always say I'm dull and boring. Well, that helps during a crisis...
...Dull is fine but not inert, as his detractors charge. While 63% of Californians support the Governor overall, according to the latest polls by the Public Policy Institute of California, 62% disapprove of the way he is handling the energy crisis. He recalls being told by his old boss, former Governor Jerry Brown, that "there will come a moment when there will be a prison break or some other crisis by which the administration will be remembered, so the challenge is to be ready for that moment. This is my moment to provide leadership...
...then they worked because the big group was broken down into four or five small groups). Whom do we remember from "Survivor 1," anyway? Just the last few: Richard, Sue, Sean, Rudy, Kelly (one was named Kelly, right?). One of the reasons I found that early "Survivor" excerpt so dull was that there were way too many people doing way too little. Cull the herd a little before we go on the air, let us know up front who the stars are, and let's get down to business...