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...starts innocently enough (if anything is innocent in Las Vegas) with arrival at the city's huge and bland convention center. Once inside, two vast halls have been transformed into what resembles a pair of aircraft hangars decorated by a team of demented TV junkies. There are massive stands taken by the major TV producers, such as Paramount, Columbia and Warner Bros. Huge signs feature talk-show hosts flashing blindingly white teeth and hopeful slogans such as "cleared in 80 percent of the country" ("cleared" means sold; loosely translated, the sign is challenging the other 20 percent to jump...
...human rights campaign, as well as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It's still there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa...
...everything short of arranging sticks of dynamite into the shape of a woman, dropping a wig on it and hiding behind a nearby rock. Clinton made Starr funny and watchable. And without Clinton on the scene, Starr, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest revert back to bland, Anglo-Saxon reality...
...slight, 136-pound teenager, with pimples, big ears and a face he thought of as so bland it amounted to invisibility, he had few friends at school. In practically every thing he did at St. Paul Central High, he felt underestimated by teachers, coaches and peers. No one ever gave him credit for his drawing, or for playing a superior game of golf. "It took me a long time to become a human being," he once said. "I never regarded myself as being much and I never regarded myself as being good-looking and I never had a date...
...ultimate test, of course, is taste. Among my panel of expert eaters, Martha's Cinnamon Pecan Sticky Buns were the clear favorite for their rich flavor, soft dough and impressive crown of chopped pecans. Least liked were cooking.com's Cinnamon Rolls, which my editor pronounced "bland, dry and undistinguished." The others fell somewhere in between. While one colleague thought Epicurious' Sour Cherry Pecan Cinnamon Buns had "a nice tang," others found the dough too breadlike. I thought AllRecipes' self-proclaimed Best Ever Cinnamon Buns tasted surprisingly good considering that packaged cake mix was a main ingredient...