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...recent, in September, drew 100,000 people in the capital, Kiev - photographers are told to start taking pictures only after most of the demonstrators have departed, resulting in shots of a few stragglers milling around in a public square instead of tens of thousands shouting for Kuchma's resignation. Bland, uncritical television news programs - the main information source for most Ukrainians - fail to give coverage to the protesters or to spell out their demands. And for appearances on talk-show programs, correspondents are told what to say hours in advance. Kuchma, a former missile-plant director who won the presidency...
...laudable commitment to the First Amendment does not absolve those who showed such poor judgment in the first place of their responsibility to condemn his anti-Semitic statements. To divorce poetry from politics would be to diminish the power of all language. By the same measure, however, the bland reassurances of the English department provide little comfort. Its actions have already lent credibility and prestige to the indefensible, to the point of presenting anti-Semitism as one more “point of view” among many...
...media-sodden public--that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...
...media-sodden public - that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...
...only negative aspect of the Riddlin’ Kids show was the lyrically bland songs, most of them from their debut album Hurry Up and Wait. Taken from personal experiences and the experiences of buddies, their songs are strings of platitudes lamenting the horrors of bad girlfriends. “Here We Go Again,” a song about a “super evil, villainous” combination of Baker’s and Stroud’s ex-girlfriends, can boast no line more interesting than “her face cramps up and she makes...