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...architecture, Peachtree Center is neat, competent and mostly bland. But as a boost for the center city, it has worked wonders. By zesty street designs-bright colors, flags, modern sculpture, trees and fountains-Portman created a pleasant environment that brought new life downtown. Other Atlanta developers have followed his lead. They, too, have built, not isolated towers, but large, coherent projects with hotels, apartments, shops, offices and sport facilities. Result: Atlanta has one of the healthiest downtowns...
...language is often the typically bland product of committees. And though the liturgical commission denies any doctrinal shift, the draft softens some of the gloomier theologizing of the Anglican past. "The 1928 version is overloaded with sin and penitence," says Canon Charles Guilbert, 67, custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer and secretary of the liturgical commission. "The old Communion didn't really accept forgiveness. We trust God. We trust that if we confess, he will forgive...
...catch up with Doonesbury, which needs plenty of space for its extended dialogues. A less immediate danger is that Doonesbury's following may shed the passive disillusionment and cynicism that Trudeau satisfies so wittily. Already some of Doonesbury's younger followers are finding the strip a bit bland and irrelevant. "The Establishment has decided that Doonesbury is a cute little expression of how clever kids are," says Harvard Senior Tom Hubbard. "It's been co-opted, and we're getting tired of it." Right now, however, that "we" is a tiny and humorless minority...
...court, it came very close to it. Louis H. Pollak, later a dean of Yale Law School, called the Brown decision "probably the most important governmental act of any kind since the Emancipation Proclamation." Richard Kluger goes even farther. He puts this revolutionary ruling-deliberately phrased in bland language and read in a matter-of-fact voice by a moderate Republican from California-at the heart of 200 years of American history...
...much time for ego. "We literally live the show," says Chevy. "I no longer have a private life." Married at 24 and now divorced, he has a girl friend in California whom he has not seen in two months. NBC executives expect great things of him. Impressed by his bland cheekiness, which suggests the young Bob Hope, they are hyping him as a possible successor to another all-American boy, Johnny Carson. Nothing doing, says Chevy. "I have no desire to spend the rest of my life interviewing actors. That's what I'm trying to expose...