Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue Lamp (Ealing Studios; Eagle Lion Classics), a touted import, is a bland, semi-documentary melodrama in praise of the London police. The picture's excitement runs thin compared with the better Hollywood cops & robbers product, and its humor is as heavy as plum pudding, but U.S. moviegoers may be diverted by its foreign flavor...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...
Like his landscapes, the nudes are deceptively bland. For most of his 57 years, Kitchens has relied on sweet, misty color contrasts rather than drawing, drama, or detail; he has made sweeping strokes and smears of color stand for space, shape, weight and air. His method, he says, is like "playing" a tune-playing one color off against another. Sometimes it jars; sometimes there is no harmony and I have to start afresh. But when it fits it's wonderful...
...Illinois wooing the downstate farmers, suddenly glanced back and saw his Chicago citadel in danger. Normally, Cook County Boss Jake Arvey could be expected to give him a fine 200,000 Democratic majority in the big city. But now, hanging lumpily on Lucas' political neck, was a bland, white-haired police captain named Daniel A. Gilbert...