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...prisoners, one for travelers, one for creators, and the like. The resulting juxtapositions could be enlightening and provocative and could make for an absorbing book. Unfortunately, Mallon's text leaves us without any resounding insight into the curious business of diary-keeping and his prose is, at best, bland, and more often intrusive for its carelessness, its cliches and its poor attempts at being witty. For example, "Boswell was a veritable American Express card; Johnson could never have left home without it." Or, more seriously, and perhaps more typical of the sort of casual turn of phrase that irritatingly litters...
...mask the moral flaw of self-absorption. When Arnold stingingly accuses Eugene of being "a witness," devoid of passion and commitment, the insight may make an audience reconsider its feelings about the character and also its author, who appears to be musing self-critically about three decades of often bland ingratiation on Broadway, in Hollywood...
...candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give him a human heart...
Those TV actors, with their bland gesticulations and hammy facial expressions, could certainly take a lesson or two from Marcel Marceau, the French pantomimist, the most famous living mine, if not the greatest...
...expert and highly technical ignorance of track and field was involved. At the Olympics, a track writer is defined as a baseball writer with borrowed binoculars. Mysterious wonders on the order of Bob Beamon's 29-ft. 2 1/2-in. jump 16 years ago in Mexico City are preferable to bland details such as afternoon heats and evening temperatures in the congested regimen of a meticulous man listening to his body. "Looking back," Lewis says, "I think one trouble was just the fact that I had been No. 1 in my events for three years, and there was nothing...