Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Justice Blackmun, 75, is a dogged worker who agonizes over ethical and moral issues in major cases. He is deceptively bland, a bookish man with an enormous capacity for work. He is at his desk by 7 a.m., eats breakfast with his clerks at 8, and does not leave until 8 at night When Blackmun first came on the court he was known as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," since he grew up with Burger in St Paul and seemed to follow the chiefs lead docilely. But after two years, Blackmun began to go his own, more liberal...
...Domingo is the world's oldest corporal, and although he sings passionately, he wears the look of a man who has swallowed a very hot chili. Migenes-Johnson, of Puerto Rican and Greek descent, is an exotic beauty, but her voice is inappropriately bland, and for all her enthusiastic writhing, she emerges as less the femmefatale than a one-night stand gone wrong. Bizet's potent mixture of blood, sand and song needs fire in the belly, as well as in the loins. -By Michael Walsh...
...guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo Blandón, 45, the easygoing, bespectacled chief of staff. In all, Duarte has retired or reassigned about 4,500 officers in the 45,000-man force...
...hotel corridors, arguing that this was where the real news was being made. It was also where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage. Such journalistic triumphs are no longer possible now that conventions have become bland commercial pageants designed to market a candidate known in advance. Jeff Gralnick, in charge of ABC's operation, calls conventions "dinosaurs...
...Boston Red Sox room is covered with with bland wall-to-wall carpeting that matches the sedate scene inside. Cubicles line the walls, at one point breaking the room's otherwise roaring with glee. Buckner's locker is situated at the center of the room and as he pranced about, I noticed a pile of stills on his stool. He has an uncanny resemblance to photographs of Deep Throat's Harry Reems Buckner would autograph them when he found the time...