Word: dullness
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...dialogues. Running approximately an hour in itself, the play is carefully prefaced by a series of Muller fragments, apparently intended to augment the spectacle of soulless debauchery. Unfortunately, these fog-embellished effects are symptomatic of a trendily shallow sensibility which comes uncomfortably close to tipping tight drama over into dull farce. As we were informed that the action took place in a post-World War Three bomb shelter, I felt my strongest emotion of the evening: dread. However, consistently good acting and direction just succeed in pulling this production back from the abyss of student pretension...
...superbly researched and well-written book, Thomas Powers proposes an explanation for the German failure. That his case is not entirely persuasive does not dull the book's fascination. It is a kind of police procedural, an examination of international intelligence gathering -- the sort of material Powers handled so smoothly in his splendid 1979 look at Richard Helms and the CIA, The Man Who Kept the Secrets...
Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
...heels to strut their stuff. It just goes to support some things I've always suspected: that men in heels tend to be far more interesting than men in boots, and that men in boots can be as plastic as men in heels. Frankly men in boots become quite dull after a while. Day in, day out, men in boots, men in boots...
Katha Seidman, a visitor to the snow-covered Yard yesterday, said, "People seem more tired and conversations seem more dull...