Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears, on the face of it, an impossible (and perhaps unnecessary) dream, it also seems that Strick, whose camera technique may be charitably described as primitive, is the wrong man to attempt the task. More than a decade ago, he gave us a Ulysses that suffered from the same dull defects. But there are, at least some inherently cinematic aspects to that novel, and the director's defects did not appear quite so plainly. In Portrait it becomes clear that Strick cannot even handle straightforward dramatic scenes energetically and forcefully. Nor is he very good with actors. Bosco Hogan...
Some of those musical riffs can be isolated as gestures, and Wylie teaches them all, many from his 1977 book Beaux Gestes. Pointing to the eye means "You can't fool me," and flicking the fingers across the cheek says "How dull," because the words for beard and razor (barbe, rasoir) have meant "boring" for more than a century. Pushing the nose upward means "It's so easy I could do it with my fingers up my nose." Drawing the tips of the fingers together and placing them in the palm of the other hand means "He's so lazy...
...Viewing. It dealt too directly with sex." CBS editors jokingly called the episode--which the writer titled "Bess, Is You a Woman Now,"--"Did Bess Get Laid?". And this is the absolute high point of the book. Not a boring subject; but as for the book, we're talking dull...
Three night watchmen who patrol the cluttered yards of an industrial plant in the French Riviera town of La Seyne-sur-Mer were about to begin their 3 a.m. rounds when they heard five dull thuds from one of three unmarked rectangular hangars on the factory grounds. Rushing to the building, they found its alarm system disconnected but its hermetically sealed doors unopened. No intruder was spotted scaling the yard's 6-ft. walls...
...broadcast shows they did not want to carry. The FCC had long required cable stations to provide "public access" air time to just about any group that put together a show. Though some of the programs perform a real public service (consumer-advice shows, for example), many are excruciatingly dull (talk shows on which people-in-the-street rattle on about nothing in particular) and a few border on pornography (nude dancing on Midnight Blue over Manhattan's Channel...