Word: dullness
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...their derrieres after sliding over the ice with the sweeping phrasing of the baroque guitar. Then, he clemently rushes us all home with a competently executed Largo, to the family values warmth of fireside, cocoa with mini marshmallows and mom. The first and second violins joined with the fat, dull twang of the bass in an extended pizzicato, successfully evoking a grandfather clock slowly prodding through a bitter time of year...
Earlier this week, a staff editorial appeared on this very page and voiced the opinion that this year's election has nothing to offer us. The candidates are dull, it opined. They have nothing new to say; their conventions were nothing more than infomercials. To top it all off, there's not even a contest between the two, no good horse race for the public to sink its teeth into...
...dull, sanitized-for-tv convention until that electric moment on Thursday night. Few knew that Bob Dole had injured his ankle getting out of the motorcade earlier. But he shook off the pain, courageously mounted the podium for his acceptance vault, completed the difficult 1 1/2 twist and stuck the landing. As he crumpled to the floor in pain, chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the arena...
...this the movie's short-film origins, wherein the director can inflict such goofy ideas upon us only for so long, and movie becomes a dull, mindless exercise. And the tiny stars that should liven things...
...reach the second round, and to win, Yeltsin must unite the democratic opposition to Zyuganov, or at least dull its threat to his own candidacy. One often hears of an imminent deal in which Yeltsin's leading non-Communist opponents, Grigori Yavlinsky and Alexander Lebed, will drop their campaigns. Last week, though, Yeltsin and Yavlinsky had a public spat as talks about joining forces hit a bump. "He wants too much," said Yeltsin, at first referring to Yavlinsky's demands that he fire much of his Cabinet, but later the President decided he could "accept" many of them...