Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basically, the film takes an absurdly simplistic caricature of traditional theories of mental illness--that anyone deviating from the bland norm should be locked up and lobotomized--and reverses it, adding no subtleties in the process. The result is a prescription that "order" is wrong and that "sub-normal twits and gibbering hunks of animality" should inherit the earth. Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) arrives at a relatively quiet ward in a mental institution, where three-quarters of the patients are "voluntaries," and he proceeds to wreak havoc. The only crazy thing about him, he claims, is that all he wants...
SPIRIT: Frederick Wiseman's Welfare (PBS). With his customary cool compassion, TV's only great documentarian showed us not a bland and idealized portrait of what we have been but the inhumane and bureaucratized future that has already arrived for the poor and could dominate everyone's life by our 300th birthday...
Admissions officials contend that the Buckley law aggravated a trend in bland teacher and school recommendations, weakening their usefulness in providing that full picture. The more imprecise recommendations become, the more Harvard will be forced to rely on that objective data...
...little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...
...Everything seems to be more dramatic and vivid when you're risking your life. They would rather experience life deeply than have a bland life that lasts long," he said...