Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps along the lines of the limited U.S. airlift that ferried Belgian and French paratroopers to Zaïre and that last weekend began flying in Moroccan troops to take their place as a peace-keeping force. But in the end, the NATO leaders softened their final communiqué to a bland warning to the Soviets against exploiting "situations of instability and regional conflict in the developing world...
...which will be responsible for property maintenance, is equally important. Since Zeckhouser and Wyatt are still figuring out transitional details, it is not yet clear which properties Harvard will take over from their main managers, Hunneman and Co. Real Estate. In a letter sent last week to Richard W. Bland II, vice president and director of Hunneman, the University notified the company of its intentions to renegotiate the contract. Bland says his company's relationship with Harvard is permanently in flux, so the letter was inevitable. He hasn't seen any gross problems with the present management system but agrees...
Except for a couple of bland turns by Joni Mitchell and Neil Diamond, the concert is one high after another. Hawkins sets the pace with his screaming version of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love? From there, it's on to Neil Young's Helpless, Paul Butterfield's Mystery Train, Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy and Morrison's downright ecstatic Caravan. The Band's numbers are full of lyric intricacies and haunting musical motifs. When the group joins the Staples to do The Weight on a mysterious sound stage set away from...
...widespread perception of Vance as a gray and bland figure that most worries his colleagues and, increasingly, Vance himself. Although he is effective in head-to-head private negotiations, he is a plodding public speaker and a poor salesman for policies that sorely need selling. Since the President too lacks a flair for inspirational rhetoric or the graceful articulation of American foreign policy concepts, the Administration has not been projecting a coherent foreign policy to the world?or to Americans, either...
Steinberg's work is always signaling that there are more interesting matters in art than "authenticity" in the expressionist sense. It looks beyond the man to the mask and finds there an extraordinary variety of personae, by turns bland, urbane, comic, ridiculous and distinctly threatening. The first mask of all is style itself. "I want the minimum of performance in my work," says Steinberg, a virtuoso if ever there was one. "Performance bores me. What interests me is the invention. I like to make a parody of bravura. You have to think of a lot of my work as some...