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...Examiner helped to introduce sensationalism, jingoism and human interest into newspaper reporting. But in recent years the once garish Examiner, fading visibly, has resembled nothing so much as a hazy fog rolling in from the Pacific-with the news reporting turning blurred, local color getting soupy and editorials going bland...
...undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note to hit next, and how long to hold it. The result is an inoffensive if bland series of electronic tones, reminiscent of belly-dancing one moment and, after flicking a few switches, baroque music the next. It's not great music, but it's music nevertheless. The box took two hours to design...
...enthusiasm for chic new areas and bland old ones in religious publishing appears, however, not to have harmed solid, scholarly work in the theology and history of traditional Western religions. Indeed, commercial publishers seem to be unabashedly using frothy products to subsidize more substantial works, and university presses are contributing an increasing amount of important new religious reading...
Faisal shuns modern dress for the traditional long cotton lhawb that Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well...
...Folketing (Parliament) in 13 months to decide how much welfare and inflation they will tolerate. The right-of-center minority government of Premier Poul Hartling, 60, called for elections last month after failing to muster a majority for a one-year freeze on wages, prices and profits. Although the bland, schoolmasterly Hartling has by no means attracted a large popular following, his Liberal Party (according to the latest polls) may win as much as 30% of the vote-compared with 12.3% in December 1973. If these projections are correct, the Liberals will topple the Social Democrats from their position...