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Chains continued to buy up U.S. dailies, large and small, during the past ten years, but despite fears of bland homogenization, the average local paper generally grew better. The biggest group, Gannett (85 dailies), has shifted emphasis from moneymaking boosterism to enterprising reporting. Old-fashioned women's pages have given way almost everywhere to trend-conscious life-style reporting. There has also been a sharp upswing in the quality of stories about the arts and popular culture, especially television. In addition to their own. resources, moreover, daily editors now have a broader range of syndicated news and features...
Using an overlapping grip, sentimental people are holding on to old golfers for dear life and good reason. No sport lets go of champions easily, but in golf the replacements have been singularly unsatisfying: too blond, too bland and too many. On the P.G.A. tour, young strangers are kept in such supply that a different one seems to win every week, usually in a playoff. They all swing the same way-correctly. Their skills are undeniable. They appear able to do anything on a golf course except enjoy each other's company...
...trend is real, "but there is no reason to be inordinately concerned about the danger of elevating style over substance: in reality, there is a very strong correlation between the two. Walter Mondale is viewed as bland and traditional because he has staked out a position as a cautious and experienced politician, and he has focussed on the old Democratic issues--fairness, aid to the poor and the unemployed, etc. While this helps him with the old-line party groups like Blacks, industrial union members, and lower income people, it hurts him with the independents...
...early Warhol, he might have come up looking like early Morley. In reproduction, of course, the paintings become postcards again. But on canvas they have a disconcerting air; above their anonymous imagery the paint is beginning to assert itself, its texture and weight anxiously at odds with the bland scenes of middle-class pleasure they describe...
While Ardant manages to be as engaging as her role allows, Trintignant is bland even beyond the dictates of his character. As Vercel, he comes across as unequivocally wimpy rather than charmingly understated, leaving the romantic subplot quite unconvincing--mildly grotesque, in fact, as the love scenes inevitably resemble unmotivated assaults...