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...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...
...from Minnesota that no leader can mess it up too badly. While this election might matter to you if you're gay or an N.R.A. member, for the rest of us, as well as gay N.R.A. members, it's a wash. Our desire to avoid change gave us two bland, ineffectual candidates. Not committing to one of them is just our strange way of saying I love you. I may have some other issues going on here...
DICK CHENEY Secretary of Bland is charming, winning debate. Big time. But did he overshadow his boss...
MERLOT "A step away from rose; sulfur; kerosene; a hint of strawberry; bland." --Glenn Vogt, general manager, Windows on the World
Miles Harvey's The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House; 405 pages; $24.95) is the fleshed-out version of an article Harvey published in Outside magazine in June 1997. His topic then was a man named Gilbert Bland who had made a career in crime out of visiting major U.S. libraries and cutting maps out of valuable old books in order to sell these stolen treasures to unscrupulous collectors. Harvey's topic now has expanded to include accounts of how he researched and wrote both the original magazine piece and the subsequent book...