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...steadier beat. In or out, modern Republicans have a tradition of tidier selections-with 1964 perhaps a recent exception-than those of the brawling, robust Democrats. With a sitting and seemingly eminently re-electable President in command, the Republicans are again heading for what looks like a relatively bland $1.5 million affair in Miami Beach. By all indications, it will be a pageant of party unity, a coronation rather than a contest, a subdued, elegantly appointed spectacular in which the only mystery is the question of the vice-presidential nomination. No major fights, no challenges are in the offing. Richard...
...quickest path to success. Ted even created a Little League team in Binger just for Johnny and his brothers. When that did not work out, he drove them 17 miles to Anardarko to play. Meanwhile Johnny glued himself to major-league games on TV, assiduously copying down ballplayers' bland interviews...
Haussmann had taste as well as authority. His successors often lack his sense of design. Most of the new buildings are as bland and expressionless as a child's wooden blocks. (The new sports stadium at Pare des Princes in Boulogne is an exception.) Commented L'Express: "There is no excuse for the wretchedness of French architecture...
...price of all these sauces, you also get spaghetti, sourdough bread with plain or garlic butter, salad, coffee, and spumoni ice cream. The salad swims in the dressing of your choice; the House dressing is bland and oily. The butter is whipped and the garlic effective. The spaghetti was delicate, but disappointly overcooked. The coffee was cold, but the spumoni was authentic--the real Italian kind complete with fruit and nuts...
Even on a personal level, no one has ever heard you rhapsodize about the conceptual sweep of Japanese leaders the way you have done in the case of Chou Enlai. They do indeed tend to be rather bland men, practical and often frustratingly didactic. But it is still impressive how far they have moved their nation in the past two decades...