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...then came one of the grandest scams of all. In 1910, Backhouse and J.O.P. Bland, a London Times China watcher, published China under the Empress Dowager. The memoir was based on the diary of Ching-shan, a fin de siècle Manchu courtier. Backhouse claimed to have found this trove of gossip and intelligence in its author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing...
Cash Machines. Such economies are making newspapers so profitable -and thus so desirable as investment properties-that prices will probably continue to soar. Industry analysts concede that $125 million for the Star and Times may sound high, but add that the stodgy, bland and earnest dailies should become immensely profitable under firmer management from Capital Cities; besides, as in most U.S. cities, the papers have no real competition. "It is extremely difficult and expensive to start a new newspaper," says Otis Chandler. "Thus the ones that are in place and going are even more valuable." This is particularly true since...
...Hungry," which basically echoes "County Jail Blues" but is muffled by a chorus whose hunger "for your sweet smile" belies the rasp in their voices. There are tantalizing jammings between relatively bland layers of sentences and, after a while, you begin to wish that he's either turn it into an instrumental or stay with the stong and stop showing-off all his fancy tricks. Again, this song wasn't written by Eric Clapton but you rather wish he hadn't brought so many other people into the act--less is more and too many cooks...
Clapton has digested so many musical influences that he's dulled his palate. Invesitably the result is bland, a sort of baby pea-and-ham mush of originally solid substance. It's hard to distinguish Clapton's puree from Brand X any more and his appealnow lies chiefly in the hints at the original taste of the musical base than today's too-well-blended pulp. Not any reason to cry--that's too strong a reaction...
...alderman who declared himself acting mayor on the grounds that he was president pro tem of the 50-member city council (one alderman from every Chicago ward). Frost soon found himself out in the cold. A group of council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council would now lose 50% of its voting strength...