Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reviewers of the time dismissed these films (though audiences lapped them up), but over the years academics, feminist theorists and the ga-ga cinephile community have insisted on a re-evaluation. They see in Sirk's films' sympathy for his painfully repressed heroines a slyly subversive assault on the bland values that strangled them...
...That places Hu, a smart but bland technocrat, in the awkward position of having to consolidate his power through Machiavellian wiles. Every Chinese leader since Mao has signaled his own arrival by ousting his predecessor's followers. Deng Xiaoping cast out Mao's choice, Hua Guofeng, to become China's supreme leader in 1978. And Jiang himself declared his independence in 1995 by ordering the arrest on corruption charges of Deng's faithful Beijing Party chief, Chen Xitong. "The congress has resolved very little, and Hu will have to move against someone" in Jiang's camp to show his strength...
...with the help of local farms. An earthy sort of goodness is evident in dishes such as the seared scallop special ($23). Five fresh, tender and juicy scallops surround an herbalita red wine reduction of bacon, celery, onion, carrot and gigante beans atop a mild turnip puree. The bland turnip does not add much to the scallops, which are quite tasty in their own right, and the bread pudding-esque herbalita is fatty and almost slimy, a poor textual complement for the scallops. One vegetarian option is an entrée-sized portion of ricotta and bread dumplings...
...most terrifying murder rampages in the country's history, one that had led the White House to contemplate opening up military bases so children could go trick-or-treating in safety and that had induced otherwise rational residents to scurry in a zigzag formation across bland suburban parking lots. In three weeks, the case elicited 138,000 tip-line calls, seven times the number the Unabomber case yielded over 18 years. The 14 shots took 10 lives, though the tally may still not be complete. The FBI is investigating whether unsolved murders and petty thefts in other locales, from...
...from the Staff, this time the board, in its anonymous wisdom, feels that dumping on FallFeast because the food was not savory enough is a constructive use of its influence. While the Staff’s contention that FallFeast was not successful may be true, but using slightly bland food as a jumping off point for repeating every single fault with the council in an unprovoked tirade against its leadership is not called...