Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further hedge against age and sex discrimination, the Department of Labor will issue a supplement to its Dictionary of Occupational Titles in May, rendering job titles inoffensively neuter- if offensively bland and even silly...
...Cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Richard Crossman would retire to his 17th century country house near Oxford and dictate the week's experiences into a tape recorder. Nothing remarkable about that. Memoir writing -and now taping-is a well-developed art, and Wilson himself had published his bland prime ministerial recollections...
...Examiner helped to introduce sensationalism, jingoism and human interest into newspaper reporting. But in recent years the once garish Examiner, fading visibly, has resembled nothing so much as a hazy fog rolling in from the Pacific-with the news reporting turning blurred, local color getting soupy and editorials going bland...
These treacherous defects are all on parade in Seascape. It is not a hateful play; it is bland and innocuous, a two-hour sleeping pill of aimless chatter. In Act I, Nancy (Deborah Kerr) and Charlie (Barry Nelson) discuss their lives, which seem to be a compendium of all the middle-aged plaints one has heard about in recent drama and fiction or, quite possibly, from the next-door neighbor. In Act II, the couple is joined by two English-speaking lizards complete with crocodile tails. The lizards, Leslie (Frank Langella) and Sarah (Maureen Anderson), have been almost ostentatiously monogamous...
...undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note to hit next, and how long to hold it. The result is an inoffensive if bland series of electronic tones, reminiscent of belly-dancing one moment and, after flicking a few switches, baroque music the next. It's not great music, but it's music nevertheless. The box took two hours to design...