Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson's script was as tasteless and untidy as his people's lives, it was just unpleasantly dull...
...hides in the cellar, he is only one jump ahead of old-fashioned horse opera. Another kernel of corn: Garfield's big death scene, highlighted by Gilbert Roland's brokenhearted requiem in calypso rhythm and some highfalutin dialogue delivered by Miss Jones. Never for a moment a dull movie, Strangers is often too facile or too far away from strict artistic honesty. Coming from the man who made Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is a disappointment...
Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev. Beating time with the warmth and expression of a railroad semaphore, he did his best, but the music floated drearily out into the happy din in a dull monochrome of sound...
Readers who plow through I Wanted to Write may wish that Tarkington had been around to discuss it with Roberts. He almost certainly would have cut out the ten-page list of people to whom Roberts wrote letters in 1935, together with the scores of pages of now-dull journeyman journalism reprinted here in full. He might even have suggested, as Roberts' publisher should have, that I Wanted to Write should be quietly put away in an old trunk...
...Class Album has never been one of the strongest organizations in the College. It usually has amounted to an uninteresting collation of three years of sports, a huge, incredibly dull section of individual picture and not much else. The man who gets stuck the editor's job must either be a genius at getting things-done or write it-himself...