Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall drop it with the statement that whatever the proper lable for the work may be, it is often splendidly theatrical. With a surface reminiscent of a Charlie Chaplin film, it offers long stretches which are at once amusing and profound. But there are other stretches which are quite dull. The trouble here seems to be that Beckett ventured on dangerous ground when he did away with a plot and made his characters into symbols rather than people. The mainspring of drama is conflict between very much living and three-dimensional people, even if they are confined to a stage...
...courtship of Hilda is punctuated by Casimir's sky-scanning Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions...
TIME'S Nov. 26 review of Maria Callas as Tosca is the final straw. As one who was present at this dull performance, I can testify that Callas looked like Audrey Hepburn, acted respectably and sang like a member of a second-rate road company. Your music critic either has low standards...
...Wilson have little else in common. After reaching Hong Kong, Pate's confidence expanded with each passing hour, his glibness grew apace, he fended deftly with reporters and mugged happily for cameramen from China to Carbondale. In Arlie Pate's phosphorescent wake, Aaron Wilson, mouse-timid, dull-eyed, tongue-tied, went almost unnoticed...
...Biennale, and earlier this year won the Grand Prize at the Lugano IV International, the cash was probably as welcome as the credit. Though "delighted by the award," Winner Nicholson was not willing to go far toward helping viewers puzzle out the meaning of his serene grey, white and dull-brown forms. He would say only that Val d'Orcia is in Tuscany, adding abstractly: "Of course I should say that the color and shape, for color and shape are indivisible, are affected by the place...