Word: blander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggested that we get rid of Thieu; he was reasonably sure such a proposal would be accepted by Hanoi. (So were we. We did not think we required Soviet help to surrender.) Podgorny concluded the presentations. His epithets were the equal of his colleagues', though his delivery was blander and his tone actually milder...
...stretches out for a solo on this record; the effect is to provide a tight ensemble sound to back the eccentric Byrne's lyrics. The music is danceable and listenable without being hard on the ears, but it isn't all that exciting. It reminds the listener of the blander moments of the new Steely Dan record, but with much sparer instrumentation...
...which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor, half buffoon," the Bolshevik Caliban from Ebbw Vale. The Labor Party in the end conferred the leadership on blander, more predictable...
...reduction has gone even further, acting on Disney's earlier work in a steady process of self-cannibalization that increases to the extent that the early Disney is seen as high art. The animals get cuter and more anthropomorphic, the forest glade more compulsively spotless, the characters blander; and having deprived Mickey of his rattishness, Donald Duck of his foul and treacherous temper, the Disney studio had no qualms about ruining Alice in Wonderland or Kipling's Jungle Book for the kids as well. Yet within the natural bounds of his style, especially up to the late...
...works in the Museum of Fine Arts's excellent show last spring, "Abstractionists of the Seventies," the two or three most striking canvases were those of Jules Olitski. Olitski's particular combination of richness and control has given him an attraction which blander formalists or more effusive color-fielders both possess only half-way. He is at the height of prominence now, and the show of some 60 works at the MFA shows how and why he got there...