Word: bland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Millner is poised to become the first Republican in the statehouse this century. G.O.P. gubernatorial candidates look unbeatable in seven of the eight most populous and pivotal states: Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan. A Democrat has a good shot only in California, where the bland if steady Gray Davis clings to a slim lead, though Republican Dan Lungren has closed the gap in recent days...
...where the music and language do not quite fit together. Occasionally, the lyrics get a little caught up in exorbitant verbosity and leave the music stumbling behind. "St. Louise is Listening" (a song as close to garage rock as Soul Coughing gets) and "Maybe I'll Come Down" (a bland ballad that strains Doughty's voice and listener's patience) are two songs that should have remained poems. In both, a surplus of syllables obviously constrains the music--Doughty is overly intellectual and whiny, the instrumentation is weak, and the beat sounds like it was churned from a cheap drum...
...winners were nothing extraordinary, just bland establishments with nice names. Having lived in this town for a good part of my life, I felt that everything still oozed with a conventional Midwestern taste. There was some effort to spice up the restaurant list with categories like "Best Mexican Food." I thought, whatever, as if that stuff is actually authentic in Topeka...
...know what possessed me, but I decided to kill some time and write a letter to the paper, just to see what the reaction would be in this bland, fairly undiverse town. My topic was a personal critique of the word "oriental" as applied to all things Asian...
...flowing power, amazing grace and indomitable will. Off the court, he is warm and comports himself with dignity and style, keeping a bit of mystery about himself. Because he doesn't engage in the excesses and on- and off-court buffoonery of teammate Dennis Rodman, you say he is bland. Jordan is one of the greatest personalities of this or any other century. Millions of fans watch him mesmerized for one reason: the force of his presence holds us. WILLIAM J. DEMORASCKI Glendale, Ariz...