Word: bland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed prime-time soap operas of recent years: modest goals. The show does not set out to capture a historical era (Homefront) or reproduce the glitzy New York high life (Tattinger's) or create a parable about going home again (Angel Falls). The characters on Melrose Place have a bland, modern universality. Indeed, watching the show again for the first time since its debut, one is struck by how the personnel have blended together. There was once a black neighbor (Vanessa Williams); she has moved away. Michael and Jane were initially struggling young marrieds; in short order they became free...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
...John Wayne Gacy Interview Line, a 900 number, offers a recording of the bland-voiced killer of 33 pinning the crime on unnamed others, who then took the trouble to bury the bodies under his house. Cost of the 12-minute call...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...
College radio does not operate under the same financial constraints, and can therefore afford to be more adventurous with its programming. As a result, while the Record Hospital spins new independently released music and virtually unheard-of older records, the music on most commercial radio stations is bland and repetitive...