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...penned a forceful response because Davis's comments had led so many patients to refuse black doctors. As for Davis's contention that he is arguing about minimal standards and not the question of admitting blacks, Ebert responds: "Bernie can easily say that all he did was write a bland article," But, Ebert says, there has always been a resistance to the recruitment of minorities, and Davis has given "ammunition" to these conservatives...
...mannered direction would have been less bothersome. Both visually and vocally, Verrett conveyed little of Shakespeare's "fiendlike queen." Verdi wanted Lady Macbeth to be "twisted and ugly" and to sing with a "raw, choked, hollow voice." That may be asking too much. But Verrett's bland, unchanging facial expression and her constant concern-except in the sleepwalking scene, her best musical moment-with polished tone did not begin to get inside a character that is more important to the opera than Macbeth...
That is not all that is changing at Today. The set is being redesigned ("Something more comfortable, less formal and sterile," says Producer Friedman), and the show's sometimes clunky script virtually thrown out in favor of ad libbing. Jim Hartz, Walters' intelligent, bland cohost, will hit the road to find Charles Kuralt-ish features. Interviews will be shorter, and a battery of specialists (on science, health, sports, travel, consumer affairs) will be brought in. Says Friedman: "If we can't be spontaneous, we're in trouble...
After listening to the unity rhetoric of the Democrats, projecting a man-for-all-interests, and seeing the bland and/or conservative offerings of the double-dealing Republicans, all I can say is that it is time to welcome back the candidate of the people and once again "Get Clean for Gene...
...LOOKS as if the election year will be bland, but you couldn't have guessed that last fall. At that time, it seemed as if the 1976 presidential election might pit Nelson Rockefeller against Hubert Humphrey, a struggle that could only have been designed by the collaborating imaginations of R. Crumb and Karl Marx. "Big Capital squares off against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union...