Word: dullness
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...Western scientists, the mystery is that the acupuncturist's supposed "life force meridians" on the body conforms to no biological systems that they know of. And it worries some that the cause of the discomfort is not addressed, just the discomfort itself ? rather like taking an asprin to dull your headache...
...Jiang said it was difficult to ignore the protesters just outside Sanders, whose loud shouts translated into a dull roar inside the packed theater...
...intensity Gehry can give to a vertical space also transfers to the horizontal ones. The biggest gallery, known as "the Boat," is 1 1/4 times the length of a football field (450 ft.), but with its curved walls and round ceiling trusses, it hasn't a foot of dull space in it. There are a few things in the design that seem arbitrary or merely rhetorical. The towering "parasol" that Gehry put over the river entrance is pointless except as a visual element--its roof is too high to give any protection from the weather. And the twin stone-veneer...
...course, difficulties here, because the size of some of Gehry's galleries and their eccentricity of shape is bound to tell against the smaller paintings. Moreover, as a work of art in its own right, the museum is far more interesting than many of its contents--the dull, inflated conceptual art and late minimalism that appeals to the taste of the Guggenheim's Krens. There is a whole gallery of messages from Jenny Holzer; a fatuous "work" by Laurence Weiner in the form of the word reduced written in huge block letters on the wall of its main gallery; another...
...what some generous souls say about PAUL MCCARTNEY's musical compositions. His latest, Standing Stone, took four years to write. It's a "symphonic poem" that also had its debut last week, at London's Royal Albert Hall. He too got standing ovations, although many critics branded the work dull. The album is currently No. 1 on the Billboard classical charts in the U.S. Happiest of all must be LINDA MCCARTNEY, for whom these were the first two public appearances since her recent bout with breast cancer...