Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brought in from the garden for the show, Laurens' curvy nudes looked rather like stones worn by the sea's, thumb into bland symbols for human flesh and frame. His figures were perfectly innocent of erotic detail, had none of the heavy grossness of an Epstein. They just showed a good-natured man's happy eye, a sculptor's firm hand...
...novelist, Cardinal Spellman is bland and amateurish. But if his book will not advance American literature, it will do positive good in another quarter: every nickel of the proceeds (including about $40,000 from the Literary Guild) goes to the New York Foundling Hospital...
...editor of Musical America and critic for the New Republic, friendly Cecil Smith, 44, has earned a reputation for bland but exacting reviews, has seldom stirred up any storms. In London last week, after a month of guest-reviewing for the Daily Express (circ. 4,240,000), he had thunder & lightning crashing all around...
...well-meaning people in the U.S. took us to task for publishing in South America the same news stories we distributed at home. They felt that in the interest of hemispheric unity TIME Air Express should sugar-coat its stories about the U.S. and print only "diplomatic" (i.e., bland and friendly) news about the republics to the south...
What has the committee accomplished? To those who never believe anything until they see it on television, it has shown the new, bland face of igsi's overlords of crime. It has stirred up local crimebusters, lit at least a flash fire under many a city police department...