Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend is real, "but there is no reason to be inordinately concerned about the danger of elevating style over substance: in reality, there is a very strong correlation between the two. Walter Mondale is viewed as bland and traditional because he has staked out a position as a cautious and experienced politician, and he has focussed on the old Democratic issues--fairness, aid to the poor and the unemployed, etc. While this helps him with the old-line party groups like Blacks, industrial union members, and lower income people, it hurts him with the independents...
...early Warhol, he might have come up looking like early Morley. In reproduction, of course, the paintings become postcards again. But on canvas they have a disconcerting air; above their anonymous imagery the paint is beginning to assert itself, its texture and weight anxiously at odds with the bland scenes of middle-class pleasure they describe...
While Ardant manages to be as engaging as her role allows, Trintignant is bland even beyond the dictates of his character. As Vercel, he comes across as unequivocally wimpy rather than charmingly understated, leaving the romantic subplot quite unconvincing--mildly grotesque, in fact, as the love scenes inevitably resemble unmotivated assaults...
...love) between a conventional teenaged girl and an Angry Young Man Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah) is a pretty, blonde teenager from a wealthy family. She is surrounded by boring, anxious people, from a standardized younger brother (Billy Jacoby) to an overbearing, money-minded mother (Lois Smith) to a bland boyfiend. Randy Daniels (Adam Baldwin), who wears expensive sweaters and is class president...
Simply because he remains ahead of the pack, the press is likely to become tougher on Mondale. The reservations about him are in part professional prudence: front runners often fade, as Ed Muskie and Ted Kennedy did; a candidate setting too bland a course can be upset, as Thomas Dewey was. Some of the press's tone, however, makes Mondale seem like a wimp, which...