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...Park says she’s satisfied with the book. And if she had the time, Park says, she would’ve written it herself: “I think I would’ve made it more interesting—right now it seems to me pretty bland...
...Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the report, Republicans are taking an even more careful wait-and-see attitude. Save for Sen. John McCain - who sharply criticized the report because it didn't endorse his call for more U.S. troops in Iraq - most Hill Republicans issued bland statements praising the report, then ducked for cover. Texas G.O.P. Sen. John Cornyn said he hoped the report would enable Republicans and Democrats to "set any partisan rancor aside and reach a bipartisan solution to this critical issue." "The feeling on our side is that report seems pretty reasonable," a senior House...
...nothing better epitomizes our time’s bland character than the decline of Harvard Square...
...part of our world and, though often appearing to be normal, decidedly freakish. Her subjects are often that part of ourselves we refuse to recognize. “Fur” shows us people from another, imaginary world who, despite appearing to be freakish, are decidedly normal and maddeningly bland. It gets the formula backwards, and is all the less powerful for doing so. Worst of all, however, is the fact that we’ve seen this all before. Shainberg and Wilson merely repeat the formula of their previous film; but whereas “Secretary” felt...
...generations of women surviving the wild winds of his home turf, La Mancha, Spain--winds that blow in fires, death and some superfluous men. Volver is Spanish for return. Fittingly, with the film, Almodvar has reclaimed the Madrid-born Cruz from the lost- property department of blond and bland Hollywood, where she has lived for the past several years carrying the cross of exoticism through a series of disappointing movies and tabloid-tracked relationships with Sexiest Man Alive--type guys. With Volver, she is prompting people to talk Oscar. If she nabs him, she will be the first actress...