Word: dullness
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...film progresses, the initially creative cinematography becomes tacky and ostentatious while the excitement of the storyline wanes exponentially. Ultimately, “Blindness,” based on Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago’s novel by the same name, falters heavily with its messy screenplay and dull performances. In “Blindness,” a mysterious plague of contagious blindness creates chaos in an unnamed city. Those first afflicted by the disease are quarantined in a grimy and unstaffed medical facility. Julianne Moore plays the wife of an eye doctor infected by the plague...
...barrels over the women in his life like a speeding London taxi. Giles (Michael Siberry), the sweetly clueless next-door neighbor, is the last to learn of his wife's affair and the first, pathetically, to forgive her. Ayckbourn has made a specialty of portraying people who are too dull-witted, or self-absorbed, or obsessed with social niceties, to comprehend the wreckage around them. The boozing French actress (Zabou Breitman), after a fling with Teddy, lets loose a torrential confession in a language he doesn't understand. "I don't think I've ever talked like this with anyone...
...enough to be disappointed by an event that chose Metallica and Pearl Jam as headliners, that it’s no surprise that the words “sellout” entered my mind on numerous occasions. Still, I can’t help but feel the dull pain of disappointment, as if catching the show this year, its sixth, was too late and the festival is now past its prime.I first heard of Bonnaroo in high school when one of my friends attended. He returned wearing tie-dye, telling tales of old hippies and jam bands, masses of acid...
...Journalistically speaking, there is no hot news to offer you about Roger Federer" - even though he is a witness to the famous 2006 Federer-Nadal final at Wimbledon. Instead, Wallace, who played competitive tennis in his teens, tries to explain why the experience of watching one intelligent but fairly dull man hit a ball is among the more beautiful things a person can see. One of the best magazine stories of the past decade, and the best piece of sports writing I've ever read...
...Size Does Not Fit All As a 72-year-old working female, I am offended by Mike Murphy's caricature of Obama supporters [Sept. 1]. I bought a Prius because I have to drive 65 miles each way to work because jobs are scarce. I drink Syrah to dull the pain of the damage done by eight years of Bush and friends. Joni Woolf, ELLAVILLE...