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...butte above New Mexico's Leandro Canyon last week, chilled ob servers fell silent as a voice on the public-address system reached the end of the countdown. For a tense moment, nothing happened. Then the earth jolted underfoot and a dull, distant boom was heard, followed by a second, more gentle, rolling shock. Someone shouted: "We did it! We did it!" Hand shakes were exchanged all around. The U.S. had successfully set off the first nuclear explosion sponsored jointly by the Government and industry...
...learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself. She eventually flees back to her New England home town, where a Christmas-card...
Incredibly Dull. Princeton Classics Professor Frank C. ("One-Two") Bourne is so nicknamed because he confines himself to the top two grades, on Princeton's one-to-seven scale. He contends that his courses in Roman law and Roman history are "incredibly dull -I never cease to be amazed at the way the students learn the material, and I grade accordingly." Princeton "gut-hoppers," who try to take only easy courses, are also fond of what they call "Trucks and Buses," a course in transportation centering on one research project. Two students recently lugged a case of beer...
...Edlestein uses repeatedly, often backlit, to suggest her mysterious vacuity; Hope Wilson as Kate is blessed with straightforward beauty and a rare up-from-under smile; Eric Sherman as John has a face which suggests a different value from every angle, by turns smug or harassed, depressed, or elated, dull or clever. Edlestein himself, playing Kate's friend Paul, provides the only really acted characterization in the film...
...succeed it requires complete control and attention to detail that the ensemble, heads buried in the music, was not prepared to give. The group was often not quite together and tended to play at a consistent mezzo volume. On the whole their performance was earnest but dull...