Word: blandes
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...aides concede that if he ever slips and delivers a really vicious one- liner, "it's all over." He is always careful. All smiles and congeniality at the Republican debate in Houston last month, Dole was so bland that even George Bush seemed more spirited. Fretful aides blamed themselves -- and one another -- for stressing niceness too hard. But Dole insists the low-key approach was his own. "I wasn't coached at all," he bristles. "My mission was to bury the hatchet...
Henikoff, who teamed with Bland to win thedoubles championship, played superbly, going asfar as the singles quarterfinals...
...judge by many of the offerings on supermarket shelves, dependable mediocrity and the illusion of choice might well be the twin goals of American mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...
...body in the foreground, a head and shoulders staring mournfully out of the space like a resigned cousin of the figure in Munch's Scream; for no clear reason the lower half of the body is left standing up behind it, like a pair of empty waders, in the bland spectral light of what appears to be an indoor swimming pool. At such moments Rothenberg's imagery delivers the jolt and reach of feeling one associates with the poetry of Sylvia Plath. She is unquestionably one of the signal artists of our confused time...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Rodman Griffin, D. Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette...