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...many ways Paar's vulnerability, his corniness and even his egocentricity are more appealing than the bland professionalism of a Johnny Carson, the empty-headed grin of a Merv Griffin, and the sometimes annoying coldness of a Dick Cavett (who will also have one week each month on ABC's Wide World of Entertainment). If Paar irritates, he also occasionally engages and surprises. "One thing Paar had, which I think he still has," says Robert Carman, the show's executive producer, "is his hold over people, the fear that if you turn him off, you might miss...
...problem, paradoxically enough, was not so much that it failed in the U.S. but that it hardly got a break. For every pure and major act of creation, like Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson's Seagram Building (1958), there have been a hundred ripoffs: bland, scaleless crates with their $50 per sq. ft. marble foyers and 100 Sheetrock offices, their eggbox planning, insipid detail and graceless proportions. The International Style expended itself in these shallows, not in its masterpieces. But what is the alternative? Not the culture of Vegas casinos and duck-shaped roadhouses beloved...
...horrifying image recurrently surfaced in her mind during introductory work on a novel, or at the end of a piece. Bell notices that "the fin rising on a wide bland sea," was both a signal of disaster and an admonition that new ideas for another novel were quickening within her subconscious. Virginia's creative ordeal involved such personal expense that Leonard in 1936 was certain if he had not lied to her that The Years was her greatest book, she would have committed suicide...
...Mafia patois a mechanic is a hit man. The titular mechanic of this misshapen thriller is Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson), a name so bland that we must assume the producers were at pains to appease antidefamation groups of virtually every nationality. Bishop is a psychopathic Mr. Fixit, flawlessly efficient at doing in whoever has fallen out of favor with his employers. Emotionless, a loner, Bishop spends hours studying his quarry...
Historians well might argue with Cooke's priorities: he dismisses the Pilgrims, for instance, with a courtly brush of his hand in this week's episode, but dwelt at length on the explorations of Coronado in the first show. Still. Cooke's tour is never bland or boring-which alone is enough to make it one of the bonuses of the current season...