Word: blanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson, a soft-spoken moderate, and John Tunney, who campaigned as a moderate liberal. In New York, Conservative James Buckley harped on social discontent, but in a bland, nonmalicious manner, while Charles Goodell lost votes with his outspoken liberalism. Edward Kennedy had himself photographed with hard hats, and Hubert Humphrey repudiated his former support of gun-control legislation...
...revolution," says Bill Wheeler, leader of a north California commune, referring primarily to a revolution in sensibility. But while the drugs, the clothes, the hair, the music and the language of the counterculture have become monotonously familiar, its diet has been relatively ignored. Counterculture food, while relatively bland, is nevertheless distinctive and pervasive. When Yale students played host to Black Panther supporters last spring, for example, they fed their thousands of visitors not hot dogs and Coke, but a special recipe of oats, dates, sunflower seeds, peanuts, prunes, raisins and cornflakes. Indeed, at Woodstock itself the free kitchens...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...actors who can look gaudy wearing nothing but blue jeans. But both characters have infantile psyches; they seem as incapable of sorrow as of happiness. The aimless script is even more anesthetized. Its lame jokes are articulated by stunted heroes and vapid chicks: the halt leading the bland. Though its budget appears generous, the film's editing is cut-rate; scenes end in mid-sentence and time is perpetually out of joint...
...envy of Turgenev. May I commend you especially on the book's inventiveness and control. Having the depressed Ganin find new vitality through his memories while awaiting Mary's arrival from the Soviet Union creates a natural suspense of great force. Making Mary the wife of a bland squirt who also lives at the boardinghouse ensures a tasty intrigue. And finally, having Ganin realize that Mary and Russia can never be repossessed except by memory, establishes a motif that certainly warrants fuller development in any other novels you may be planning to write. Next time, however, please...