Word: dullness
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...unerotic tryst with Judy. Gradually, a hilarious irony unfolds: Mick, the most over-touted character in the book ("Meaningless violence was not his style" or "Running was no more his style than waiting...") is in fact a pathetic negative image of King Midas--everything he touches becomes dull. All the sex that he witnesses or takes part in is at some point described as "athletic," and every character with whom he converses stoops to his moronic level of interaction. Making the book's leading man the reader's worst enemy seldom works to an author's advantage...
Could it be that Hart's irreverent Web page was drawing traffic away from melroseplacetv.com the dull-as-Pravda official MP site? I tried to reach Bosworth for comment, but she wouldn't take my call. Bosworth referred me instead to a Spelling spokeswoman, who also couldn't say what, exactly, the problem was. ("I'm not a lawyer" was her line...
Larry, after his second divorce, moves from Chicago to Toronto, where he continues running his maze firm, nearly succumbs to encephalitis, and meets a new love interest, Charlotte, who is lovely but dull. Larry is finally comfortable with himself and his life, and he and Charlotte throw a dinner party when both of his ex-wives venture to Toronto on the same weekend...
...vital source of humor at Harvard, basking cockily in the recent success of alumni Conan C. O'Brien '85 and a number of writers for "The Simpsons." Whole semesters have gone by with scarcely a word from the Castle, and some of the Lampoon's magazines have been so dull as to make one wonder if they weren't Demon-orchestrated counterfeits, produced to sully the organization's name...
...last week it became startlingly clear that monkeying with the chemistry of the human mind can trigger problems much more serious than a dull sex life. Just 1 1/2 years after it approved Redux for treatment of obesity, the FDA issued a warning advising patients to stop taking it and its close chemical cousin fenfluramine immediately. At the same time, the drugs' manufacturers and distributors, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, told physicians to stop prescribing them and took the dramatic step of pulling both medications from the market. The reason for such haste: new evidence had revealed that as many...