Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Social life at Harvard can at times seem bland. When undergrads grow tired of the sweaty, freshman-filled parties in Lowell Bell Tower or the monotonous common room Beirut nights, they often have nowhere to turn. But some of the residents of Leverett F-Tower have begun to offer up silly, song-filled alternatives, like last fall’s “Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Musical...
...thrill or urban grit of his noir masterpiece “Collateral” or any of the wit and slap-dash charm of his “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The anatomy of the affair fails to intrigue the audience with its bland dialogue and the utter lack of chemistry between Owen and Aniston. Charles picks up Lucinda by setting a $20 bet that he can kiss her without touching her lips (he intentionally loses). Puh-lease, that’s the kind of line a Delphic guy would pull, not one of the hottest...
...actors in the movie. Dax Shepard, minus his “Punk’d” partner Ashton Kutcher, shows up midway through in the role of a rescued astronaut. While he proves he’s more than a goofy sidekick to Kutcher, he acts with the bland humor of Luke Wilson at his worst. Likewise, Robbins’ role is little more than a cameo–he has about five minutes of screen time. Directed by Jon Favreau, “Zathura’s” plot moves fluidly from each board game challenge...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Kevin Fedarko, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn...
...frightens me rigid." A more enduring source of anger, says the associate, is that Charles "remembers the ridicule he took for his ideas from people who now take credit for them." Princes are allowed to be both passionate and petulant. Constitutional monarchs are best if boringly bland. Tristram Hunt, a historian at Queen Mary College, London, thinks Charles has already strayed beyond propriety by frequently lobbying ministers with his ideas and letting some of his disagreements with government policy - over genetically modified food, for example - become obvious. As King, says Hunt, "I'm skeptical he'll suddenly be able...