Word: yawns
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...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...
...tested" in headache-remedy advertising. Many seem to have been invented solely for their soothing rhythm: "Wide-ranging discussions" refers to any talks at all, and "award-winning journalist" to any reporter employed three or more years who still has a pulse. A totally disappointing report, containing nothing but yawn-inducing truisms, can always be described as a "ground-breaking study." The most exciting news on the hyphen front is that adventurous journalese users, like late-medieval theologians, are experimenting with new forms, to wit, multihyphen adjectives. So far, "actor- turnedpolitician," which can be found just to the left...
Maybe someday, if future directors remember black and white, the complexity of Walker's novel will be better served. Until then, for those who read the book, The Color Purple remains a technicolor yawn...
...that disappointment almost inevitably swept the land. When Spielberg's Amazing Stories debuted on NBC, the reaction from critics and viewers was a widespread yawn. The show's ratings, along with those of NBC's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and CBS's The Twilight Zone, settled into the lackluster middle of the Nielsen pack. A fourth anthology entry, George Burns Comedy Week, was canceled. Some revolution...
Shock waves really started spreading this spring. The NPTA had been weighing in against the record companies for a year before that, but their only response was a stereophonic yawn. The women of the P.M.R.C. fired off a strong letter to the Recording Industry Association of America, an organization whose most prominent responsibility is to certify record sales. They also arranged for an interdenominational minister named Jeff Ling ("I am to religion what a free agent is to football") to put on an audiovisual show of rock naughtiness in Washington in May. Capital movers and shakers shifted in their seats...