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...council's shirt has drawn criticism from its competitors--such as the Harvard Independent-- for its "kind of bland" design...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Game Shirts Make Fun, Money | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...create healthier foods that taste good. It's tough. "In the '90s, the attitude was, 'Take the bad out--get out the fat, the salt,'" she says. But that removed taste. So Schellhaass is concocting products like Harmony, a cereal that's not as bland and healthy as All-Bran but has added folic acid and calcium, which women need. Schellhaass is finding ways for us to have our cake and beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food / From A Tube: The Goddess Of Go-Gurt | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Critics sometimes dismiss Sade's music as being too soft, too bland, too lovelorn. Sade says her critics should adjust the volume on their stereos, that her music sounds better when it's "played loudly." She lets tiny fluctuations in her music carry emotional weight, and she wants listeners to hear the particulars. After all, isn't love best measured in miniature?--a look across a breakfast table, a forgotten anniversary, a hug that lingers past hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sade Art & Soul | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Where Dragnet satisfied a yearning for incorruptible cops, CSI evinces a longing for incorruptible machines, "Just the facts, ma'am" taken to its logical extreme. The CSIS (led by William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) are bland, undistinguished types, as if to indicate how secondary the human factor is in this fantasy world of justice by the numbers. When you're guilty on CSI, you're guilty all the way; the computer says so. There is no relativism, no my truth and your truth. It's science. It's nothing personal. And we never have to see the cases go through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Justice in the Blood | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Teen pop queens of late have been manufactured in a dispiritingly limited variety: blond and blonder, bland and blander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Irish Spring | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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