Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queens, N.Y., the Archduke Franz Josef, 42-year-old grandnephew of Austria's late Emperor, paid a $25 fine in traffic court (for driving with bright lights in a dull-light zone)-after a bystander kindly lent...
...voting machines to police headquarters-he suspected Tammany henchmen of trying to alter the vote for comptroller. The police obeyed, and the Fusion candidate won. In the next twelve years, the longest period any mayor of New York ever spent in office, life in the great city was seldom dull...
Most of it is beautiful to look at, rather like tapestry turned into slow-motion ballet; but beauty on film, when there is too much of it and too little else, can get pretty dull. Not even the talented, magnificent-looking cast can bring much of the film to life. There is a lot of engaging magic, but that, too, loses its appeal; there is too little sense of real life by which to measure its wonder. The picture is saturated in a kind of allegorized romanticism that is curiously musty. There are moments when the film almost achieves what...
...landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target but deplore...
...between the two pictures lies more in the treatment of the theme than in the theme itself. A small-town setting encourages informality more than does a religious one, and correspondingly the picture takes itself very seriously, even in the dramatic scenes which, if unconvincing, at least are not dull. But it is in the lighter moments that "Welcome Stranger" is most at case. A square-dance called by Crosby makes a first-class musical number, and some scenes between him and the adolescent daughter of a drunkard come close to stealing the picture...