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...have more influence. The second opinion, though it still thunders through Washington, has failed to convince anyone except the right-wingers who voice it regularly; it has fallen on notably deaf ears at the White House. And so more and more people who once belittled him as hopelessly bland or philosophically out of step are now accepting the third image of Shultz. One by one, his more assertive rivals find themselves relegated to the sidelines while Shultz's views are heard on an increasing number of issues. Few in Washington doubt the description of Shultz's prominence voiced by Donald...
Able to walk the fine line between a bland documentary and an overdone "epic saga," Kusturica tells the story of a Sarajevo family's struggle during the consolidation of the Yugoslavian state under Tito. The story is told in part through the eyes of Malik, the son of an aspiring Communist Party officer. Malik's Father's "business trip" (as a forced laborer) begins when a political cartoon appears in the party newspaper. The cartoon shows Karl Marx writing at a desk, with a picture of Tito on the wall behind him. Father--known as Mesa in the film--mentions...
...energy, he was not letting it show. ^ His top priority, it seemed, was to counter negative press reports about his health and that of his regime. On Wednesday, he spent a total of five hours with the members of a TIME-sponsored Newstour. He appeared physically fit, but his bland and selective answers to questions were starkly at variance with the reality that U.S. officials and his domestic critics claim for the Philippines (see interview). Two days later, after posing for photographs showing him jogging and golfing, Marcos flew to his home province, Ilocos Norte, belying reports that he rarely...
...phantasm of popular "culture" evoked by Blonsky's associations plays on the familiar theme of America the Bland...
...seven-page report, the committee argues that the Guide is an important aid to students and charges that changes in this year's Guide "designed to appease faculty concerns" resulted in a book which "was perceived by many as bland and less than helpful...