Word: bland
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...married women fare no better than the minorities. These are retro, sitcom-style wives, bland and humorless. Ronnie frets about kitchen tiles. Lucy lusts after the Fabio-type yoga instructor (Carlos Ponce, ripping off Hank Azaria's shtick). Cynthia lives to please her controlling husband. At least two of them seem to have shackles to throw off, but in the movie, the only things they free themselves from are their clothes, so we can see how they each measure up to those most demanding of standards of director Peter Billingsley: the ability to rock a bra and panties...
...From The Sopranos and Joey to this - I'm seeing an accent theme. The one through line is the big accent and the in-your-face attitude. I'm definitely stereotyped, and I'm very O.K. with that. I get super bored playing bland, normal girls. (See TIME's photos of ER's long goodbye...
...than its immediate predecessor to talk directly with Kim & Co. in order to arrive at a deal. That's still likely to be the case - even if the diplomatic nuclear brief just got a bit more complicated - and Stephen Bosworth, Obama's special envoy to the North, was purposefully bland in reacting to the HEU announcement from Pyongyang. "Obviously, anything the North is doing in the area of nuclear development is of concern to us," he said after meetings in Beijing. Coincidentally - or not - the Deputy Foreign Minister of North Korea has just returned from his own meetings in Beijing...
HUDS (Free!): Bland, watery, unexciting. HUDS' coffee may have lacked a bitter bite, but that was only because it tastes diluted. There's a difference between having a pleasantly smooth tastes, like Crema, and having no taste at all. Unsurprising and unadventurous. But I guess that's what we get for paying nothing. Also, with HUDS, you run the risk that the coffee might be cold...
...unhealthy - demand for meat and poultry worldwide is set to rise 25% by 2015 - but the earth can no longer deliver. Unless Americans radically rethink the way they grow and consume food, they face a future of eroded farmland, hollowed-out countryside, scarier germs, higher health costs - and bland taste. Sustainable food has an élitist reputation, but each of us depends on the soil, animals and plants - and as every farmer knows, if you don't take care of your land, it can't take care...