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...same unspoken questions: Will the two of us work together for legislation that will benefit the majority of Americans and make us both look good? Or will one of us pull back and play to a smaller audience of partisan carnivores who don't share middle America's bland taste for bipartisan accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...beautiful, hardworking lawyer wife (Vivica Fox) and her Harvard-educated brother (Alimi Ballard). The plots are standard sitcom fare: he goes off to a bar with his buddies when she wants to cuddle at home; they fuss and make up. The writers have been culled from some especially bland series. Hall had a much publicized fight over "creative differences" with his former head writer, David Rosenthal, a veteran of Ellen, and replaced him with Timothy O'Donnell, who had worked on Dave's World and Growing Pains. Three other writers come from the defunct and spiritless Molly Ringwald vehicle Townies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ARSENIO HALL: WHOOF! HERE HE IS AGAIN | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...dwarfed her colleagues with her huge technique. Though her double notes left something to be desired (and whose don't?), her fearless and flawless octaves, the sine quibus non of Lisztian bravura, eradicated this quibble. A duet passage with principal cellist Steve Cho '97 was captivating, but the otherwise bland ensemble writing made it impossible for the orchestra to advertise itself. This is mostly Liszt's fault, but things would have improved if the others had played with even a fraction of Sekino's drive. Her music-making seemed to grow out of a deep understanding of earlier influences...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: HRO Tackles Challenging Program with Striking Results | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...exhibiting photographs of these questionnaires, Kosuth tests the boundaries of authorship as he blurs the line between documentation and representation. But as fascinating as the concepts may be, these photographs are aesthetically rather bland...

Author: By Velma M.mcewen, | Title: MIT Kosuth Exhibit Gives Sub-Text to Text | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...from bland, Kosuth's most recent work consists largely of a dozen photographs of his billboards in major cities throughtout Europe and the U.S. These photos, by far the most visually compelling and intellectually intriguing pieces in the exhibit, show paragraphs of original prose, printed on billboards that blend into the cityscape, even capturing people's candid reactions to the esoteric signs. A knowledge of German, French or other European languages would help the viewer because no translations accompany these photographs. But there are enough photos of billboards in New York and California that the English-speaking viewer can gather...

Author: By Velma M.mcewen, | Title: MIT Kosuth Exhibit Gives Sub-Text to Text | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

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