Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, when the space-age future finally arrived, futuristic imagery was abandoned. Drive-ins died out, and fast-food restaurants became larger, more middle class. The new buildings were low slung, brownish, plastered with brick veneer. The exuberance of the late '40s and '50s architecture was replaced by bland pseudohomeyness in the '60s and '70s. Bad good taste supplanted good bad taste...
...Crimson's Kristin Bland clinched the team's perfect singles play, cruising by Amy Shift...
...director's decisions are more questionable elsewhere. Although Bradford has interestingly restructured the Loeb stage to allow for the play's beachfront scenes, the set and costume design for this show is surprisingly bland. The strange dance numbers, though called for by Shakespeare's script, are less than entirely successful...
Club members maintained a large supply of soda to give to party members after they sampled the spicy chicken and beef dishes. A native Caribbean, however, said that the food was mild by native standards. "American food is so incredibly bland," said Richard H. Drayton '86, an Adams House resident who lives in Barbados...
Still, every season someone attempts to revive the form. This year's example is Social Security, the bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone...