Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident. Cousins edited the original Saturday Review for 31 years, then quit in 1971 when the new owners, John Veronis and Nicolas Charney, announced plans to transform SR into four special-interest monthlies. Cousins then founded World, an earnest and rather bland biweekly. After the Charney-Veronis venture collapsed last spring, Cousins bought back the SR name and subscription list. So instead of competing with the new SR, Cousins' World ended up absorbing...
BRIEFLY...Irish folk enthusiasts can hear The Battering Ram, a trio of traditional folk artists playing at the First Congregational Church Fri. Oct. 12 at 8 p.m...Paul's Mall and the Jazz Workshop are serving up an all-star lineup this week and next: this week, Bobby Blue Bland and Freddy Hubbard, respectively; starting Tues. Oct. 16, Miles Davis at the Mall and Willie Dixon at the Workshop...Steve Goodman, a fine folksinger and songwriter, is playing Tufts on Wed. Oct. 17. Call 492-7679 for details. P.M.S...
...order of a character's exclamation at a policeman's inopportune knock: "Don't just stand there... panic!" Many of these jokes seem dated in Man for Man as well as on television. But other do not, largely because the plot of Man for Man is a bit less bland than most situation comedies: at the end of the play, for example, four out of the eight male characters--all of whom are homosexual in varying degrees--have been shot to death...
Hardboiled rock critics do not exactly get mad at Denver-nobody does that-but he is so wholesome that they reach for mild epithets like "saccharine," "bland" and "decent mediocrity...
Since no one is forced to eat at a McDonald's, the chain must be giving multitudes exactly what they want. For one thing, many people find the cheerily bland atmosphere reassuring. Says Sociologist David Riesman: "Americans have had a lot of experience being cheated and exploited when they eat out, and they feel unsure of themselves." McDonald's has designed a place to neutralize this anxiety, a place that does not make a customer feel he will not know how to use his fork...