Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking the government's international policies on all fronts, Mason opened fire with four proposals: the the industrialization of Germany; the continuation of taxes at their present height; anti-inflationary measures and limited allocation of certain materials to dull the impact of ERP on the United States; a possible addition to the $17 billion loan to Europe now planned; and the formation of a special body to administer the funds...
...that it has its moments, but its moments are always isolated gags, such as one of the senator's posters announcing that he is "against inflation, against deflation, for flatiron." There is a fair number of gags, and almost all are funny, but there lies between them a dull story with dull people doing dull things. The greater part of the whole story unwinds in a single hotel room, where a bunch of unfunny, characterless politicians smoke cigars and harass the Senator. William Powell plays the title role, a sketchy part that is never developed into a sympathetic character...
...feature, "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami," stars George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Ann Dvorak, and is just about the most detestable bilge that has been flung at a screen since the nickelodeon went out. It's dull...
Though a career diplomat, Lane has written a blunt and frank report. Where it falls down badly is in the writing. Lane uses that jargon habitual to diplomats, a dialect sometimes confused with English, which makes his occasional revelations seem as blandly dull as his report of an exchange of diplomatic amenities...
...strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions of socialism, loveless matings on rooming-house beds, artful schemes to marry pregnant girls to somebody else...