Word: bland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is not all that is changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
After listening to the unity rhetoric of the Democrats, projecting a man-for-all-interests, and seeing the bland and/or conservative offerings of the double-dealing Republicans, all I can say is that it is time to welcome back the candidate of the people and once again "Get Clean for Gene...
...LOOKS as if the election year will be bland, but you couldn't have guessed that last fall. At that time, it seemed as if the 1976 presidential election might pit Nelson Rockefeller against Hubert Humphrey, a struggle that could only have been designed by the collaborating imaginations of R. Crumb and Karl Marx. "Big Capital squares off against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union...
Unstable Solution. The movie, silly but affable, has some rather short sighted social notions, and its portrait of an oppressive future society looks no more menacing than the California beach culture run riot. Everyone is bland and pretty, decked out for pleasure in outfits that look like togas designed by Frederick's of Hollywood. The special effects are rather more elaborate, but not necessarily more convincing. When our hero and heroine encounter a cuddlesome old hermit (Peter Ustinov) living on the outside in the gutted U.S. Capitol, they seem to be trapped in some unstable photographic solution, shifting...
...approach to his career, however, is very much his own. Despite his youth, he has been acting for ten years. Unlike Winkler, he does not spend his energies talking about the Yale Drama School or other heavy topics. Instead, he has shrewdly consolidated his reputation by recording a bland rock album tailored to subteens. Let Her In, Travolta's biggest hit on the album, is now No. 5 on the Cashbox charts...