Word: blanded
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...quite unlike what you've eaten at most other conventional Chinese restaurants. It's not that the chef at the Su-Shiang gets a sadistic threill out of seeing his customers reach for the water glass, but rather that authentic Szechuan-Hunam-style food does not have that bland taste that characterizes so many Chinese-American dishes. For the less-than-ambitious, Su-Shiang's menu also offers a multitude of seafood, poultry, beef and pork dishes without the distinctive Szechuan flavor...
...evidence that would be presented to them that day by Doar or, less frequently, Minority Counsel Albert Jenner. After directing the members to the proper page, Doar would begin reading, often referring to the documentary records, which were also in the notebooks. His style of presentation was intentionally bland...
...actors do. There is only one stridently monotonous note in Roberta Maxwell's voice box. Her Juliet is a fishwife haggling unsuccessfully over a flounder rather than a young girl losing the world and her dear life for love. David Birney's Romeo is so limp and bland that it comes as a wondrous surprise that he has either the will or strength to climb to Juliet's balcony. Mercutio, that man from whom words flow like liquid light, emerges in David Rounds' rendering as little more than a stand-up nightclub comic...
...allied himself with the liberal Republican minority. He never became part of the dominant Reagan faction, even after winning the controller's post in 1966. Flournoy's amiable grin and easy manner are assets, but even well-wishers acknowledge that his performance as a candidate has been bland. His aides attempted to make that a virtue, emphasizing his insistence on spending Sundays at home with his blonde wife Midge and their three children. But Flournoy was helped most by his opponents' problems. A number of formidable early contenders decided not to run. Though a total...
Given Simpson, the whose Nixon home is Administration's bland record on consumerism, the appointment last year of Richard O. Simpson, 44, to head the new Consumer Product Safety Commission caused no great expectations. But Simpson confounded the skeptics by taking on the job of protecting the public against dangerous merchandise with surprising vigor and independence. The CPSC has just raised loud protests from traditionalists by banning all firecrackers beginning next week - thus muting the Fourth of July. The commission is now scrimmaging with the management of the National Football League over whether to bar artificial turf in stadiums...