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Milton E. Bland Atlantic Beach...
...from accusations that he cracked up at the controls, Katagiri may face criminal indictment for abandoning his passengers and plane so quickly. "It's unbelievable that he was among the first to take the rescue boat," said JAL President Yasumoto Takagi. Pictures later showed the captain, with a bland expression and wearing a cardigan, aboard a bus after he had reportedly told officials he was an office worker. He could receive a five-year jail term if convicted under Article 75 of Japan's civil aviation law, which requires a pilot to do his best to minimize casualties...
...chords and sappy strings, music by rote, lyrics by reflex. Says one major record executive: "In the 1960s, commercialism and the heart of rock were pretty much the same. In 1982 the commercial center and the soul of the music are different. It's no accident that these bland, faceless groups with no defined image, no personality, no boldness have the largest-selling albums. They're the easiest to sell...
...more startling uniqueness of Cambridge/Boston, one which boasts a local scrivener whose words are read the world over." If the Express--which rejects pictures in favor of text--is to survive, it needs the sort of writing a few of its reviewers are providing, and not bland, badly written and slightly breathless accounts. It should be noted too, that the Publisher, the Associate Publisher and General Manager, and the Associate Publisher and Sales Director are all listed above the Managing Editor on the paper's masthead...
This masterful manipulation of the way a scene looks is what True Confessions so obviously lacks for the rest of the picture. Ulu Grosbard's bland and uninteresting direction more often looks like a television situation comedy than a major feature film. Not only are the colors and backgrounds either washed-out or meaningless, but their lifelessness saps the movie of any feeling for the location or the era. Besides the old cars and wide-lapelled suits there is little hint of where or when the movie is taking place...