Word: dullness
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...Howard people ... seem to be winning, or certainly proliferating ... Limbaugh and Stern are popular because their audiences consider them uniquely honest, commonsensical, funny and a bit reck-less (more than a bit in Stern's case) at a time when most people on radio and TV seem phony, impersonal, dull, dissembling, hedging. Both are irreverent, acute, bombastic, iconoclastic, outlandishly populist rabble-rousers who make millions of dollars a year. They are national ids, gleeful and unfettered. Howard is Rush's evil twin, Goofus to his Gallant...
...biography of a 19th century rabble rouser, or the snippet of Charles Burns' inky teenage horror comedy "Black Hole." Other superstars have brand new work. Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular, diamond-like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs...
...Students who didn’t recognize him at first immediately knew him when we said he was the Ferris Bueller guy,” law student Anjan Choudhury said, referring to Stein’s much-parodied role as a dull high school economics teacher calling attendance in John Hughes’ classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day OfChoudhury, a third-year law student from Houston, is one of this year’s four HLS class marshals, who are in charge of planning Class Day events. He said graduating students were solicited in the fall for suggestions...
...playwright piles on the codas, explaining in faux-documentary style what became of the lads, even providing a violent death. That's an odd exclamation point to a Bennett sentence that should end in ellipsis. It's as if he was afraid his students in the audience were too dull to get the point. Bennett can be forgiven the polemic, for he has brought to brilliant life a dozen original characters: four adults (including Frances de la Tour as a teacher who says history is simply "centuries of male ineptitude" and "women behind them, with a bucket") and the eight...
...magazine about sex” stacked up to anything more than smut, I had a copy picked up from H Bomb’s release party on Monday night. I shouldn’t say I was pleasantly surprised—I found the feature articles dull, the poetry overwrought and the interviews middling. But the co-founders’ glib pronouncement on the editor’s note that the magazine “Isn’t quite what you expected, is it?” holds true enough...