Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furor over Amerika highlights a persistent TV dilemma. Network programming is frequently derided as bland and mindless, but whenever a provocative show comes along that purveys a controversial point of view, it is assaulted by interest groups on one side or another, often scaring off advertisers and making the network less likely to try other risky ventures. The critics of Amerika, meanwhile, have their own irony to face. The attention they have focused on a program they despise has set the stage for what could be one of TV's highest-rated mini-series since Roots...
...face of the Pope's bland opposition, Jaruzelski has restored the Church's old privileges and created new ones, giving the Church a large measure of freedom to educate the young and to assist the needy...
...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, Richard Bruns, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin...
...been similarly unwilling to flesh out any of the other nebulous proposals he will unveil in the State of the Union speech next week. During one Cabinet meeting in December, Secretary of Education William Bennett listened as bland proposals were presented and then, hoping to spur discussion about the next step in the Reagan revolution, pronounced the prospective agenda "boring, boring, boring." The President just listened politely, and nothing new emerged. Partly it is a matter of selective engagement: Reagan enjoyed meeting last November with a group of futurists who discussed their vision of the 21st century, but he does...
...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, Richard Bruns, Robert I. Burger, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Tom Curry, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Nelida Gonzalez- Alfonso, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin...