Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking as the real thing-which spouts crystal mirrors, crowns, hands and cornucopias; a cigar box puffing a cigar; a door, set up against the sky, opening to admit a cloud; a glassy-eyed nude crammed into a bottle, entitled "inspiration," a beach sprouting sorrowful, earthbound pigeons, whose dull green wings flap like leaves in the wind...
Johnny O'Clock (Columbia) is another strenuous whodunit in which everyone talks in a monotone, wears an inscrutable expression, indulges in pinwheel fisticuffs and drinks a mort of straight whiskey. It may be that the type has become formalized and will shortly be just plain dull...
...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
...like to see on their stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues-but it is so very, very dull." Complained a hungry-sounding left-wing critic: "In every act someone is eating something. This kind of home-cooked comedy . . . represents...
Because it forbids such professional monkeyshines as sadistic holds and Promethean agonies, intercollegiate wrestling is generally considered about as dull as sport can get. Not so in the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., home of wrestling conscious Lehigh, where the great grunt-&-groan is taken as seriously as football. Last week 800 Bethlehemites-town & gown alike-trekked 120 miles to New Haven, Conn, to see Lehigh's wrestlers compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships...