Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haughty assurance yet still compulsively playing Daddy's girl, that she is instantly, perceptively comical in a way that the men's flabby clowning is not. Her blue-blooded New England accent, sharp and petted, is a perfect edge against Nicholson's nasal, sparwling diction and Beatty's bland tones (though she's mostly allowed to say things like. "You're so je ne sais quoi, I could just eat you!"). She has a great face, amazingly variable: she looks like the cherub on the Gerber Food labels. When she rages about boredom and neglect she might be indicting more...
...which anticipates Caro so thoroughly that it is difficult to believe Curator Rubin's claim, in his long and other wise formidably reasoned catalogue essay, that it "had no direct influence" on him. But in the '60s Caro's horizontality was liberating. Floating, perky, mass denying, bland of surface, sprightly in color-how refreshing it all looked after the bronze rhetoric of what Herbert Read called "the geometry of fear...
...past month, there have been widespread calls for his resignation. Last week Thieu responded by naming yet another new government, this one a "fighting government of unity." Despite that description the new Cabinet included no members of the broadening opposition; the Premier, Nguyen Ba Can, is a bland labor unionist who can be counted on to do the President's bidding. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh demanded that Thieu resign before Saigon "becomes another Phnom-Penh," but the call was not likely to be heeded...
Maud Morgan, an artist and a member of the committee which drafted the controversial proposal, said yesterday that her committee's action was motivated by a "desire to inject some controversy into the otherwise bland proceedings...
Martin is not alone. As the military situation darkens, newsmen in Saigon sense a rising hostility from the South Vietnamese. The normally bland army newspaper Tien Tuyen (Frontline) last week demanded that the Thieu regime "take strong, hard measures against foreign correspondents" for being "in major part" responsible for Communist gains. As Danang fell, a group of American journalists gave two South Vietnamese marines a lift to the airport. When the marines asked the journalists their nationality, their driver thoughtfully replied that they were English. "That's good," said one of the soldiers. "We're ready to kill...