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...combination of municipal power and rising real estate values succeeded in driving out the rot. In a new world of tall towers and chain stores, the Disney company played both beauty and the beast--corporate pioneer in the once skanky wilderness but also chief symbol of the bland mass marketplace that the Square is today. It's not just the squalid 42nd Street of the '70s that has been wiped away. It's the rich, wild tangle of the prewar years. Traub is of two minds about "the stupendous contrivance" that Times Square has become...
...still taking calls, as are clones like the USA Network's Nashville Star. But the plebiscite frenzy has gone far beyond these amateur-hour extravaganzas. You can hardly turn the dial without running into another opportunity to make your vote count, for something or other. --By Elizabeth L. Bland...
Everybody in Japan knows that for journalistic thrills, you turn not to the nation's bland, daily newspapers but to its ribald, tabloid weeklies. They carry everything from celebrity gossip, true crime and light porn to serious investigative reports and political expos?s. But some of the publications that pride themselves on embarrassing the rich and powerful are finding that their targets are now striking back. Last week the Tokyo district court ordered Shukan Bunshun to halt the distribution of its current issue?after 740,000 of the magazine's 770,000 print run had already been shipped to stores...
...this is their tribute to jam-rock; unfortunately, the band members are in no position to improvise. The result is a two-minute guitar solo based entirely on five notes. “Liezah” and “Secret Kiss” present some more memorable, if bland, tunes evoking the Byrds, but they don’t quite get close enough...
...foreign policy, and he rarely answers questions from the audience. At his maiden New York primary speech, at Columbia University last week, Edwards was confronted by AIDS protesters who wanted him to address their issue and by local reporters curious as to why he hadn't mentioned Iraq. His bland responses--that AIDS was a test of "moral responsibility" and that Iraq was "a very important issue"--disappointed both groups. "He didn't speak with any detail at all," said Kim Sue, one of the protesters. "I think I'll have to vote for Kerry...