Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Republicans were willing to accept a quirky non-pol, Democratic voters chose the competent if bland alternative. They renominated Incumbent John Tunney, 41, who withstood a rough challenge from Tom Hayden, once the kind of radical youth leader warred upon by Hayakawa...
Juan Carlos' public pronouncements have been few and bland. Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that the King may be a good deal less cautious than either Fraga or Arias, a timid holdover from Franco's days who is probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain...
Peter who? Lemongello, 29, is a bland-voiced but relentlessly enterprising tenor from Islip, Long Island. For years he struggled to build a career-through such gimmicks as sending out little boxes of lemon Jell-O to deejays and record-company executives to remind them, should the occasion arise, how to pronounce his name. Now Lemongello and some home-town backers have forcefully raised the momentous question: Can an independent singer hit the big time by marketing himself like so much, well, JellO...
...throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight of a Moussorgsky. Pasatieri Instead has written in a bland, old-fashioned style that might be suitable for an O. Henry short story- say, The Gift of the Magi. Easy as it is to listen to, Pasatieri's music simply fails the text...
...spectre of Hank Williams hangs most heavily over his son. Hank Jr. has been a country singer since his late teens, but only with the Friends album has he been able to break out of the pattern of bland and banal country tunes that marked his previous albums. Still, he is haunted by comparisons with a ghost he must feel hovers at his shoulder. The best song on Friends is "Living Proof," a testament to what it means to be the son of Hank Williams...