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Garfunkel brings very little to the party. He is a bland, pleasant-faced man who seems incapable of strong words, let alone strong feelings. As for Actress Russell, one's heart goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fractured Freud | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood, including Antony Maitland's new illustrations, happily capturing the Master's locutions: "Curious, bland, yet deeply various gentleman ... he was very like a convert to a new faith, who walks in the ways of the Lord with such assiduity as to obliterate His footsteps entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 110-Year-Old Murder | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...require an excess of exposition, and the film lacks both snappy comic writing and truly suspenseful action. Beatty aside, the minor characters are not developed with much flair. Sam Waterston, as a onetime Matthau protege in the agency now forced to lead the pursuit of his mentor, is bland in a blandly written role. Herbert Lorn, as Matthau's friendly rival from the U.S.S.R., is too friendly for the good of the picture. The film lacks a needed air of menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sly Spy | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...musical worth, but must nomadically migrate to a new brand of music and a new "persona" on each album to amuse his audience. This kind of analysis, aside from its off-hand assumption that a popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical development of Bowie's last three albums. With Brian Eno's aid. Bowie built a triptych of immense proportions, charting sonic territories for a new generation of musicians to populace. Atop this musical canvas he has now added Scary Monsters like a vision of the Last Judgment...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Messing With Major Tom | 10/8/1980 | See Source »

...asked for an administrative hearing to or der delivery of Berkeley's documents. But Administrative Law Judge Thomas Schneider found in favor of the university. Said he in defense of the need for privacy in evaluating candidates: "Words written with the likelihood of publicity are likely to be bland and noncommittal and nonspecific." Last month, Labor Secretary Ray Marshall overruled Schneider's finding and ordered Berkeley to deliver the documents in 30 days or face a cutoff of federal contracts totaling roughly $25 million yearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growing Row over Peer Review | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

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