Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blonde who looks younger than her 56 years." Moreover, she has "a good figure and good posture," "nice coloring" and "the best-looking legs of any woman in public life today." Thus Women's Wear Daily praised Mrs. Richard Nixon - while simultaneously bemoaning her taste in clothes as "bland." In sketches by a staff artist, the daily bible of the U.S. fashion industry then offered its own notion of what Pat Nixon should wear. TIME went further, calling on four top U.S. designers to comment on Pat's clothing and create an elegant wardrobe for the new First...
There is a pattern to the people named to the Nixon Administration to date. "Those who have come front and center tend to be bland," reports TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress. "That doesn't worry the Nixon people at all. This is not an exciting crowd. Its campaign was not exciting, and its government is not apt to be. It recruits by the yardsticks of competence and loyalty and public acceptance. It is not trying to stir or to amuse. Competence may be the goal, but that doesn't mean politics is overlooked...
...metaphor is a compelling one, even if Albee treats it too literally and tediously. When the play turns from sociological truisms to comic treatment of the manners of society, Albee is back in his own milieu. Richard Kerry's bland, but tasteful, set locates the action inescapably in a living room in modern suburbia -- right down to the inevitable green velveteen furniture. Richard (Robert Fox-worth) and Jenny (Jane Cronin) act like they just stepped out of a Raleigh commercial. In actuality, they are the kind of people who smoke bad cigarettes only because they are so deeply in hock...
PROMISES, PROMISES follows all the hallowed tactics for promoting mediocrity into success. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, and Marian Mercer turns in the acting gem of the evening as an amorous alcoholic pickup. But the comic tone of Neil Simon's book is bland rather than pithy, and most of the songs of the Burt Bacharach score are interchangeably tuneless...
...would speak for the party in the Senate? If no one violated the unwritten rule ("Rock not the boat, lest the boat be rocked when you have hold of the tiller"), the Senate Democratic leadership would consist of well-liked, if rather bland Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and three conservatives: Long, Georgia's Richard Russell, who was to be named president pro tempore, and West Virginia's Robert Byrd, who was to be retained as chairman of the Democratic Conference. Of the four, only Long was vulnerable...