Word: dullnesses
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...sexual cliches: the preppy (Aaron Stanford) lusting after an older woman, in this case his stepmom (Sigourney Weaver). He doesn't get her but does land her best friend, a chiropractor played by Bebe Neuwirth, in whom all this movie's comic energy is delightfully concentrated. Shot in a dull digital process by director Gary Winick, this is, alas, one weary ride--77 minutes that sometimes feel like that many hours...
After that affront, Williams went off to war. Combat did not dull his baseball skills: he led the league in slugging and on-base percentages the first four years after his return. Back from Korea at the end of the '53 season, he played in 37 games and batted .407. (He did not bat enough times to qualify for a hitting title...
...John Vinocur of the International Herald Tribune bad-mouthed the team for not playing a "pretty" enough game, for being all hustle and no skill?the usual American stereotype. It's a silly comment, given the quality of the U.S. goals and the performance of European teams. Italy's dull, defensive posture isn't exactly Renaissance football. Portugal and France, the glam teams, self-destructed. And England hasn't exactly been poetry out there for what, three decades...
...this side can play, so effervescent and joyous and tireless. Then you read the names on the backs of the jerseys. Reality check. All that sleep must have dulled your brain cells. These guys are Japanese. You're not one to stereotype, but the last time you checked, Japan was a land of pachinko-playing automatons, dull conformists who wear uniforms to work and school, and who never, ever jaywalk. When did they start having fun? When did they all become blond...
...England's coach Sven-G?ran Eriksson and German great Franz Beckenbauer, among others, suggested that the dull performances by hotly favored teams were down to Europe-based players being just plain knackered from a long season of club football. But the teams that excelled in the first two weeks of the World Cup?Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden?were full of Europe-based players. Nobody clocked more hours in the pro season than Spain's Real Madrid contingent: in addition to the closely contested domestic league, their club went the full distance in the Spanish King...