Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the card keys have spiced up the otherwise humdrum Quincy atmosphere. Now, students grin and giggle upon seeing the blinking green light that denotes an unlocked door (often after shrugging in exasperation when the first attempted swipe results in a sinister red signal...
...quickening pace and mounting numbers have reduced what often used to be , a spectacle into an almost humdrum event. Today few people in town other than Jack King, the local mortician, even know that an execution has occurred until they read about it the next day, buried on an inside page of the Huntsville Item. When a chubby killer named Richard Beavers got his lethal injection of sodium thiopental last week, the only noteworthy aspect of the event was its timing: late on the night of Easter Sunday. That might have provoked an outcry a few years...
Attending Witness for the Prosecution is about as fun as serving jury duty. In this faithful production of Agatha Christie's humdrum courtroom drama, the audience is asked to sit through a lengthy and primarily uneventful murder trial. Similar to real-life jury duty, the brightest moment of the play comes in the end when a verdict is announced and the plot, finally, twists...
...earnest, serviceable yet rarely stirring and almost never believable. It's never outright bad, it's occasionally funny, and twice -- when Peters sings the self-help anthem How Can I Win? and when Short courts her on a rooftop -- it's thrilling. But most of the craftsmanship is humdrum. The narrative lacks suspense and liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better shows: a transvestite Richard III pales beside the Crummles troupe in Nicholas Nickleby; dancers costumed as forbidden foods...
...wintry sun sinks, Armenia's capital takes on the eerie cast of a medieval town under siege. Life in Yerevan has reeled backward, like a grainy black-and-white film, toward a barbaric era of ethnic and religious war -- an apocalyptic time when death becomes humdrum, the threat of disease is ever present, and nothing matters but daily, primal survival...