Word: leaden
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...when he works with lyrics less surreal than his own he sounds like he's camping it up. Diamond Dogs was worse, an unintentional self-parody. And David Live took him out of the studio with disastrous results. A few cuts on Young American had promise, but most were leaden...
...Howard O'Brien's script are sort of dull, but the characters that lack them tend to buckle under familiar interpretations. O'Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
Charade's End. The pledge ostensibly ended the subtle charade that foreign reporters had concocted to evade the government's jerry-built censorship. For a month some overseas journalists in New Delhi had escaped the censor's leaden fist by telephoning or telexing their copy direct to their home offices, or by flying out of the country to file from Beirut or Bangkok and then flying back a few days later. The Indian government, while it barred distribution of some foreign publications like TIME and Newsweek, tolerated the practice...
Much as we appreciate your kindness in publishing a review of Burke's Presidential Families of USA [May 5], I feel that some misleading impressions may have been gained by readers from your reviewer's leaden facetiousness...
...Long Last Love. Bogdanovich, P. (American film director) is on his professional premature death bed. No one need ask who done it; he done it himself. His latest picture is, as Variety might put it, stinko. Not only that, it is expensive, personalized stinko. Worst of all, this leaden dirigible dragged some very talented people down with it, including Cole Porter, a hard man to sink. When a friend of mine stole the script from Twentieth Century Fox and lent it to me, the two of us sat rocking on chairs for the better part of an afternoon rubbing...