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...when he comes to write, the tongue seems to wag the man. Except for a few set pieces, e.g., a vivid description of a storm and some fine, clear passages of Irish speech, Rain on the Wind is a standing example of what happens when Erin goes blah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Bog | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...didn't intend." There is something even harder to take. "Just when . . . the correspondent has done all the preliminary work and is all set to cover [a] conference that the great world will be watching, he is handed a wire: 'Our Washington correspondent, Bill Blah, is arriving with the American delegation and will be in charge.Please give him every assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ain't We Got Fun? | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Bilbo: "Senatorial courtesy . . . forbids me from telling you what I think of some of my colleagues. . . . Senator Taft [seeks] to line up ... the pinks and the reds and the off-brand of the political life of America to further [his chances] for the presidency. . . . [He is] the blah blah blah of the Senate . . . a young mockingbird just out of his shell, all mouth and no bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: K. K. K. | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere is blah. They drink hardly anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Facts of Life | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry, Clumsy Man | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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