Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good article is often very, very dull because it doesn't involve a performance," Bell said, "while the great lecturers I know have been very poor writers...
...itself de-evolves--it loses the anger and humanity of the lead vocals, the power of the rhythm guitar, the pulse of the heavy drum beat; it becomes lobotomized. Devo probably intended all this when they recorded "Satisfaction" this way--but that doesn't make the track any less dull. Alas, this sterile, tuneless shell will be many radio listerners' only acquaintance with Devo, and they will understandably avoid the group like the plague...
...years I have read them seven or eight times. I am one who holds the Trilogy in a special place of esteem -- you might say I love these books. Not everyone feels this way about Lord of The Rings, but those who criticize the books for being a dull, silly tale or simply nothing special have always been an enigma to me. I simply could not understand why anyone could fail to be as enchanted by Tolkien's world...
...James Burke from the 9th District hobbles up to the podium and starts talking softly into the microphone. Nobody knows he's up there, or maybe they do, but the dull hum of conversation doesn't subside during Burke's impromptu endorsement speech for King. A real lock 'em up and shoot 'em speech--Burke tells the convention why King should be governor. "Imagine those people selling drugs to our kids in junior high school. We need a man who will deal with these people. Look at the murders--why just during the past week...What are we coming...
...among American painters: one needs to go to Matisse or Bonnard to find anything like its expressive scope and patient single-mindedness. Then came the forays into an increasing darkness, the mute theatricality of his penultimate paintings, the wide blackish-plum surfaces that scarcely "breathe" at all, and the dull, fiddling solipsism of the last works...