Word: dullness
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...McLean, VirginiaNo I never do. It doesn't really arise. I generally sat back and let other writers do the screenplays of my novels. The process is often long, repetitive and frustrating. I feel it would be the expense of novel writing for me. It is also a little dull for the novelist to turn his or her own work into screenplays. There is a lot of going back over the same thing and making it slightly worse or simplified. I did it once with John Schlesinger for The Innocent. It took up three years of my time...
...dinner discussion of 20 students at the center presided over by an illustrious Harvard alumna or in a crowd of 400 wordlessly absorbing the visionary truths of filmmaker Byron Hurt. These events, and many others made our first year exciting, interesting, sometimes controversial, and never dull. The HCWC will continue to be responsive to the issues that matter to students, and it will continue to keep its ear to the ground for the sound of future progress...
...Whatever it is, one day spaceships turned back into boxes and the monsters moved out of the closet. Losing this capacity to fantasize is conceptually heart-breaking to me, but it’s not a cause one can rally to. For one thing, how could adults face the dull stress of a work day, the pain of lost love, or the reality of warfare if our imaginations were still as free as children’s? And not even the impending summer is recess enough for the grown-up mind, because Harvard is not the problem, it?...
...overhaul via a 10-year, $5 billion plan to turn it into a world-class playground for the wealthy, with multimillion-dollar seafront homes, a megayacht marina and a Universal Studios theme park. The point of this real estate renaissance: change Singapore's image as a prosperous but rather dull commercial hub into that of a vibrant, fun destination-a place people will want to live in or at least visit on holiday, not merely transit on their way to more exotic Southeast Asian locales such as Bangkok and Bali. "Our entire nation is focused on a self-transformation," says...
...cars geared for younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge of coloring within the lines. "It's like baseball," he says. "The reason why baseball is fun is because you have rules. Playing around with the restrictions is actually...