Word: duller
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...revolving audience sees him in three additional incarnations-in the '20s, the '40s, and today in his ultimate, modern G.E. home, with indirect colored lighting and clear-plastic, form-fitting kitchen chairs. The older appliances are wonders to behold. But the plastic man's life gets duller as it progresses...
...Brook's film as in Flaubert's book, the heroine (Jeanne Moreau) lives in a French provincial town and is married to a prosperous and proper bourgeois who is even duller than she is. She is bored, she falls in love with a younger man (Jean-Paul Belmondo), she loses him. At this point, Flaubert's heroine kills herself. Brook's heroine, alas, owes rather less to Flaubert than she does to Freud. Her drama is not a tragedy of society but a crisis of identity. "She wants to live a life, anybody's life...
...doubt "fornication" is only one of the more genial of a long list of activities illegal in Massachusetts; if Harvard is going to make itself responsible for this, it ought not to ignore duller sins. Certainly Harvard has the right to see that the laws of the Commonwealth are upheld by members of the University -- and I'm sure that residents of the Houses would surrender more gracefully to the inevitable if the problem were stated unequivocally. But why in heaven's name must anyone haul in "love and last" and a lot of other orotund phrases which are quite...
...trial, which was front-page news in Pravda, was staged as part of a new Soviet campaign to make life harder for Western spies and duller for Communist partygoers. Since last month's trial and execution of Oleg Penkovsky, the scientific official who was convicted of slipping secret information to British and U.S. agents, the Soviet press has been urging comrades to "break the criminal chain of espionage" by showing "revolutionary vigilance and being ideologically well-steeled...
...rambunctiously adolescent" Annapolis, senior essays run to such topics as "A History of Varsity Cross Country at the U.S.N.A." At austere West Point, cadets are "bright, dutiful boys with a conventional cast of mind." At the Air Academy, "even the bright cadets did not seem different from the duller ones; they all inhabited the same constricted intellectual and moral universe...