Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Humbs and his neighbors will have another chance to look into the mirror next week. Fifty-two years after he left Neunkirchen, now part of West Germany, and twelve years after he became the bland but politically nimble leader of Communist East Germany, Honecker is scheduled to make a five-day visit to his homeland. His host will be West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a lot more than nostalgia will be in the air. Postponed earlier as a result of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the trip will mark the first time an East German party...
...weird is going on with the political career of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The angry outsider, the superheated maverick who used to beat up on the Democratic Party just four years ago, no longer seems angry. His shrillness has almost vanished. Sometimes he is even in danger of being bland...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette...
...novel does not lend itself so readily to sequels: the plots are more apocalyptic, and even if the characters survive, their undercover effectiveness usually does not. But just as John le Carre managed to bring back dumpy, deceptively bland George Smiley, so Brian Freemantle has managed to write six captivating novels featuring scruffy, wily Charlie Muffin. He is a brilliant survivor who in his time has outwitted the Soviets, the Chinese, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and his own British service, which early in his debut novel set him up to be killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam...
...bland composure, Meese's description of the "fact-finding" mission left the impression of an incurious, if not downright obtuse, investigator who failed to keep notes of crucial interviews with key players in the scandal or follow up on hints that laws might have been broken. In amiable tones, he told of how on Nov. 23 he confronted National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North with a memorandum describing the diversion to Nicaraguan rebels of profits from Iranian arms sales. He did not ask North if the President had approved...