Word: duller
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...thousands of tiny craters were filled in with water-soluble paint-purposely duller in tone than the original hues, so that the restoration would be distinguishable to the trained eye. Exulted Dini last month, after nearly six years' work in San Marco: "Look how Fra Angelico's colors have come forth again. They are so much purer, so much more brilliant...
AMERICAN LIFE IN THE fifties is remembered as dull in general, the Eisenhower administration's programs are recalled as even duller, and the nation's foreign policy can be briefly summarized as Dulles. Insofar as it deals with public life, George Kennan's second volume of memoirs does not appear to have a terribly interesting subject. But even if the period was the boring middle act of a bad tragedy, Kennan's attempts to divert the course of events into less static lines command attention, if only for the force of his personality...
...track the money down, a process that eventually involves him with some shady types from Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky, mindlessly sexy playmates. Compared with last year's Shaft original, Shaft's Big Score is more elaborate, a lot glossier and finally duller. Shaft himself suggests that the black man's ultimate goal is to live high, smash faces and make terrible demands on his sexual prowess. As the hero, Richard Roundtree brings considerably more fervor to the clinches than to the dialogue...
...game became cleaner and duller in the third period, as Harvard sloppily blew some chances and ended up on the short end of the scoring for the period. Brown, a much faster team than lasts year's 13-8 squad, outplayed the Crimson at times, picking up the only goal on a nice play. The Bruins' Ray Tiernan gave the Brown band a little hope at 4:51, ruining Harvard goalie Joe Bertagna's shut-out with a seven-foot flip shot...
...unabashedly trying to make it just like a Rolling Stone. "As befits its name, Rags eschews the gloss of traditional fashion books," reports shiny-panted Time. Which is to suggest, perhaps unfairly, that in rejecting the slick road to fashion, Rags and Rolling Stone may have inadvertently established a duller shade of slick themselves...