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...cuisine, usually served buffet style, runs to the bland and hearty: beef, chicken, salads, garden-variety vegetables and one or two trifling desserts. Although chefs are not touted on the marquee, the quality of the food, say theater owners, is crucial. "You could do a staggering production of Showboat," says Play Packager John Bowab, "but if there is a guy sitting there for two hours wishing he had an Alka-Seltzer, you're dead...
Composer Bernstein contends that there is a mystical relationship between the occult numerology of the kabbalah and his 50-minute score. In fact, the Dybbuk music is a bland, pseudo-modern pastiche-a murmuring of Mahler here, a shriek of Stravinsky there, stray leitmotifs of Hasidic melody to suggest ethnicity. Robbins' choreography matches the music, sometimes cliché for cliché. When the orchestra explodes in a burst of Yiddish song, dancers sway sinuously, as if at a ghetto wedding. There are great yaps of brass at Big Moments of high stress; on stage, the performers thrust splayed hands...
...Texas, Governor Dolph Briscoe's landslide victory in the Democratic gubernatorial primary probably assures him of a second term and may have ended the political career of his rival, Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold. A multimillionaire rancher and banker, Briscoe, 52, ran on a bland, conservative record and a boast of having avoided new state taxes last year. He surprised even himself by rolling up 68% of the unusually light vote (less than one-fourth of those eligible) and swamping Farenthold, 47, a reform-minded liberal who is the national chairwoman of the Women's Political Caucus. Farenthold...
...appears to be biased reporting. But Griffith believes that bias is less prevalent than it used to be, at least among "straight" newsmen (as opposed to the underground press and New Journalists who "live at the intersection of fact and fiction"). In any event, Griffith is no preacher of bland impartiality. He argues that newsmen should have a sense of commitment and responsibility, provided that their general convictions do not cloud their judgment in handling specific stories. He urges readers to "suspect an indifference that calls itself impartiality; it is the pedestrian asset of secondrraters...
...sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...