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...three skits are only mildly illuminating front-line communiqués from the sexual wars. But when Simon is writing them and Matthau reading them, substance seems almost beside the point. This has been a drab year for domestic comedy; in the valley of the bland, the one-joke man is king...
...Technicolor cross sets the tone neatly for the television service, a bland but professional blend of folksy, pep-talk piety and bubbly, inspirational hillbilly music-a Norman Vincent Apeale to a Lawrence Welk constituency. The music is no mere come-on; in the hour-long show, Humbard's sermon usually takes little more than 15 minutes. The Cathedral Singers-including Rex's wife Maude Aimee, a pert, peppery, brunette soprano who becomes properly demure for the Gospel numbers-are the stars. Smoothly pancaked, eyelashed, and carefully coiffed in styles of the '60s, the girls come...
...President's hand is fast being forced, and his Justice Department may be required to become more active in dispensing justice well before he faces reelection. But in the wake of last week's decision, Nixon merely authorized his press secretary to offer the bland observation that Administration officials "will continue to carry out their statutory responsibilities." That does not have the ring of strong presidential leadership on one of the nation's most agonizing and enduring domestic crises...
...FASCINATING as all this may be, Crazy Sundays is not without its drawbacks. Some of the writing is contrived, bland or pedantic. Latham has a tendency to point too energetically at the irony of each incident; he also has a predilection for Time-ese ("Zelda was teaching Scott lessons about tragedy which Aristotle had left out.") For someone unfamiliar with Fitzgerald's novels, the analysis here may be too sketchy; in any case, it is occasionally banal (The rape of Nicole by her father in Tender is seen as a symbol of capitalism...
...There Be Light. By far the most important measure was the Government's decision to permit U.S. distillers to make a totally new kind of tipple called "light whisky." Pale in color, varying in strength between 80 and 90 proof, and bland-tasting enough to get lost in the mixer, it will come to market in July 1972. An estimated 140 million gallons are gently aging in warehouses, and the inventory is expected to reach 200 million gallons by introduction time...