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...only make limited suggestions. The Soothsayer should not be played like Tiresias. Chairman and Iras, two thankless roles must either put on more or different clothes. The colored battle-screen made no contribution. More seriously, the court at Egypt was enervated and decidedly unexotic, unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers...
...have never been able to figure out why children raised in homes with everything would become promiscuous, resort to drugs or commit violent acts. Whitney Young might possibly be right. Maybe, behind those "bland, sterile, antiseptic gilded ghettos" there really is a sickness, and someone should make a study of this to find out. He might discover that we need black America more than it needs...
...viewer this year, the ceremony was something like a banquet in a Howard Johnson's. The decor was pleasant, the food we were served, rather tasteless. Bob Hope, "America's Ambassador of Laughter," was there, with his own bland brand of social satire. "It's such a novelty seeing actors and actresses with their clothes on" and "Up until a few months ago, I thought that The Sterile Cuckoo was the story of Tiny Tim" were two of his more biting lines...
...Emperor put in a strong bid for more arms, largely, he said, because the Soviets were gaining alarming influence in neighboring Somalia and the Sudan. Selassie said little of the domestic unrest that forced him to close the national university and most high schools last month. He was equally bland about the activities of the Damascus-based Eritrean Liberation Front, which is fighting to establish a separate Eritrean state in northern Ethiopia. In the past six months, the front has hijacked three Ethiopian Airlines planes and kidnaped (briefly) the U.S. consul general in the northern city of Asmara...
...Voight plays a Supermanic hero and his Frankensteinian twin. Occasionally, he perks up enough to look lobotomized; the rest of the time he second-fiddles amid a frantically improvising cast-which includes Novelist Nelson Algren. The only player who truly understands this kind of cartoon is not the blond, bland star but Severn Darden, a refugee from Chicago's improvisational Second City troupe. Darden portrays a mad doctor who would seem far more at home speaking balloons than lines...