Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...illustrate its points, the Vatican had arranged a vast show of 1,400 religious art works produced in the past half century. Most of them were conservative and many were dull, although the exhibition did include a few standout pictures that proved how "understandable" religious art can be without sacrificing freedom or strength of expression. Among them were a powerful close-up of Christ on the cross, drawn by aging French Modern Georges Rouault, and an industrial-age view of Jesus in the Street, by a little-known Italian painter named Francesco Perotti. But the chilly traditionalism of the exhibition...
...Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from Frank Fontaine, who plays his dull-witted sidekick, and Evelyn Varden, his conscience-stricken mother...
...frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study and a delightful example of moviemaking magic...
Most of timid, inefficient Betty's jobs were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...Sunday and banned the reading of the Ten Commandments because of the "fantastic" morality of their "jealous God" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949). Last week, in his 15th Century Anglican church in the village of Needham Market, Vicar Thomas was at it again. Because he found most hymn tunes "funereal, dull and too difficult to sing," he had dressed up the old Anglican hymn, Rest of the Weary, with the syncopated melody of a British bandleader's current theme song, Here's to the Next Time...