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...Bland as it is though, piped-in music has a way of inflaming people-especially people whose feelings for music force them really to listen. "It's so faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green...
...church's mission to the world" is the misleadingly bland theme of the Toronto Congress. Evangelism-on the religious, political and cultural frontiers of the world-will not be the delegates' only concern; they will be deeply involved with inner searching and selfcriticism. "This is a desperately difficult time for Anglicanism," warns the Rev. Roger Lloyd, a canon of Winchester Cathedral. "The historic definition of Anglicanism needs renewing...
...just a question of beauty," says Rudolph. "It's a matter of significant form. There is something in a human being which demands that we sense the support and the supported-even though it may be sheathed with other materials, and decorated. Look at the difference between these bland cosmetic boxes and a Gothic cathedral, where every last rib and column is structural...
Taunting, Tempting. The works span a narrow spectrum from the formal purity of Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held to the geometric surrealism of George Ortman (see color). Kelly's naked statements of form are bland on the surface; yet he clashes colors like cymbals to drive the viewer's eye into more tranquil corners. Al Held boldly ladles as many as 30 layers of plastic Liquitex paint onto his huge canvases to spell out alphabets in monumental bulk. Slowly, as if one had stared for minutes at any word until it became meaningless, the letters cease being acceptable...
Critics say that the common standards enforced are apt to be low ones, and blame franchise operations for both the bland sameness of food and service and the repetitive look of the neon-and-chrome shacks and stands that dot the nation's roadsides. The U.S. Justice Department argues that the parceling out of exclusive sales territories by franchisers violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. But franchising won a key legal victory this spring, when the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment against exclusive franchised territories. The case, which returns to a U.S. district court...