Word: bland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it difficult to believe that TIME would waste a cover and several pages on questionably talented hop-rock and bop entities. BLAND D. AUXER Lewistown...
...unfortunately, never break out of their papier-mache molds. One wishes that Mohr, a former stand-up comedian who played Tom Cruise's slick-talking, backstabbing nemesis in "Jerry Maguire," could have lent a little more comic verve to his appealing but bland Mr. Nice Guy. Bacon merely drifts in and out as the perverse Mr. Wrong in one of his most forgettable roles. If anything, the movie could have used more of the potential spice of the two supporting females: there isn't nearly enough of Illeana Douglas or Olympia Dukakis as Kate's anxious, marriage-obsessed mother...
...floating with flowers in their eyes are here, along with the kind of gynecological exposure in the guise of Blue Flower, 1918, that made early audiences cough nervously. And there is the late work From a Day with Juan, 1977, whose white ramp jacked up into heaven presents a bland portentousness that is a lifetime away from O'Keeffe's revolutionary start. Through it all runs a whiff of pure Americana, a longing for an untroubled world sprung from native soil. "It is breathtaking as one rises up over the world one has been living in," O'Keeffe once wrote...
...Brothers spokeswoman says the company wants Clinton to see the film before passing judgment. The more disturbing news, of course, is that Zemeckis didn't have to ask Clinton to play a part in order to cast him using existing footage. The President of the United States gives such bland speeches that with a few snips they can just as easily be about national security, human cloning, the ongoing budget talks or a message from an alien civilization...
...found the Harvard Dining Services food--and Cambridge's latenight pizza--a little bland...