Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson deserved victory in this, its Ivy League opener, about as much as Gerald Ford deserves the presidency. Their defense was as bland and holey as an eighty-pound wheel of Kraft swiss, their offense devastating. But 15 minutes a football game does not make, and had not some higher power ordained that Columbia quarterback Mike Delaney should slip on fourth-and-two deep in Crimson territory with the Lions driving for the potential winning score late in the game, the celebration at Baker Field would still be going on this morning...
...upheld on First Amendment grounds of press freedom the right of the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish secret government documents on U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Britain has no such written constitutional guarantee; governments have in the past had little trouble bullying the press into bland quiescence, and the courts have stood idly by. Jubilant British journalists greeted Lord Widgery's decision as a long stride in the other direction. "It ends the notion that civil servants should be protected in perpetuity with some sort of chastity belt," said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans...
...wheedled a revealing kind of empathy out of you, at least if you were a woman (not necessarily a black woman), too. Not so nice to herself--nonetheless the poet kept a grip on her personality; it wasn't glamorous piece of public property tempered to complement the bland taste of everyman...
There's something ruthless in that attitude: it treats Rice as something less than human, purely as an instrument, a part broken down and therefore worthless. But what can I say? I have to perceive Jim Rice off the field only as a shadowy and bland image. He says he likes to fish. He comes from Anderson, S.C. He is twenty-two years old, my age, though in some ways he is probably a lot younger than I am because he has had fewer experiences, or at least not as wide a variety of them. He has been to fewer...
...bookstore, for example, the architect framed every window with white marble to give the cheery illusion of more light than actually exists. His U-shaped headquarters for the Enso Gutzeit paper company steps down to a startling courtyard between its wings. But Aalto deliberately turned the building's bland flat sides to its 18th century neoclassic neighbors, matching their cor nice lines and echoing their façade patterns. Only through such respect for place, Aalto seems to say, can cities keep their harmony, continuity and zest...