Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never were these sub-deb tunes played as he plays them. His walking bass is a thing of inexorable sureness; his traditional handling of these untraditional pieces is never dull, almost always completely...
...editors of this anthology have exercised the greatest care in selecting their material. There is not a story in the volume that is dull; the commentary is lively, apparently accurate, and invaluable in establishing the continuity which a simple collation of clippings would of necessity lack...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this double-header are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...
...leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort of juvenile vigor...
Harvard's Glee Club ran through its program with case and quality, but the dull essence of its classical numbers brought a limited response from the holiday-spirited crowd. The Club's "Gaudeamus, College Medley" arranged this year by Acting Conductor William F. Russell was easily its most interesting piece. College medley turned out to be the only field in which the Harvard Club was better than Yale...