Word: leaden
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...rehearsed her Marilyn! lines during the day. In between, the British actress frantically gobbled French fries to put on 14 Ibs. and give her 110-lb. frame a little Monroevian oomph. The result: the critics loved her, though they could not swallow the play. Said one: "Yet one more leaden exercise in necrophiliac hagiography." -By E. Graydon Carter
...well-brushed hair rather give him the look of a 37-year-old Charlie Brown. His drab office on Corridor C2 of the Pentagon differs from innumerable others only in that it is piled somewhat higher with computer printouts. He speaks coolly, even diffidently, and writes in the most leaden Pentagonese (sample: "It is obvious that the cumulative effect of these political externalities has not been able to generate a growth pattern that is compatible with the growth pattern in our plans"). The most vivid words one colleague can find to describe him are "dogged and thorough...
...fine film. Attenborough's direction is solid, despite some lapses in John Briley's generally adequate script. Attenborough gets good performances out of his star-heavy cast, which includes John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard, and Jan Charleson. But Candace Bergen as Katherine Bourke White is a beautifully leaden exception and the actors occasionally get stuck in tight spots. Sheen, for instance as a New York Times reporter who follows Gandhi both in South Africa and India and reminisces wistfully about his early meetings with the Mahatma, has to say, "We were a bit like college kids trying to figure...
...sign outside Cologne's largest TV and video store proclaims that West Germany is im Videorausch (high on video). What Germans are not high on is the leaden quality of their own television programming. This is one reason why an estimated 1 million Germans will buy VCRs this year. Cassettes of U.S. movie hits like Patton and Cabaret, plus soft-and hardcore pornography, have proved so popular that a well-known chain of coffee stores was all set to add a line of cut-price VCRs to its menu of Colombian prime and Brazilian Mocha. It backed off only...
...literary disaster." At work here may be the old harrumphing delusion of perspective: a Miniver Cheevy trick of eye and time Up close, most writers tend to look minor, to look like transient scribblers: aphids, small potatoes, twerps. One imagines a golden age long gone and a gray, leaden trivial present. effect is only heightened by the undiscriminating hype. One has to listen hard to hear any real thunder in the books...