Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Binghamton, N.Y., civic center, Jiverly Wong mailed a rambling, paranoid letter to a Syracuse TV station, bemoaning the loss of his job assembling vacuum cleaners and accusing the police of harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year-old had licenses for both of the handguns used in the attack...
...pulav, which my wife introduced in 1982 after returning from a trip to Iran." A waiter appears moments later with saffron golden rice and tender chunks of curried potatoes, fried cashews, wisps of crispy onions and ruby-red barberries imported from Tehran. "In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish," says Kohinoor. "But the exact recipe is a closely guarded family secret...
...Birthday Party” premiered in 1958 and is Pinter’s most critically acclaimed play. The story revolves around the terrorization of Stanley Webber, a failed pianist who lives in a rundown boarding house owned by Meg and Petey Boles, to all appearances a bland couple. The trio seem at first to get along splendidly, displaying a mix of familial and flirtatious affection. But these early moments are merely a foil to those that follow the arrival of the rest of the cast. The play shifts tone dramatically with the arrival of Lulu, Stanley’s younger...
...generation ages and we become parents, how will our relationship with Facebook change? Many will deactivate their accounts or restrict their profile to a name, bland picture and work/education info. Facebook will become for us little more than a phonebook with pictures. And, with the closing of the Facebook era, we will lose memories from our student experiences. Like it or not, many important social interactions do take place on Facebook—memories are encapsulated in tagged photos confined to the low resolution of Facebook albums, groups and events keep us connected to larger organizations, and who doesn?...
...this new production, directed by Arthur Laurents - author of the original book and now 91 years old - the story is what seems least compelling. Partly this is due to the competent but bland cast. As Tony, leader of the Anglo gang the Jets, Matt Cavenaugh is an attractive, sweet-voiced Broadway leading man, but he doesn't look like he could survive a game of touch football, must less a gang rumble. As Maria, the virginal Puerto Rican girl he falls for, newcomer Josefina Scaglione has a lovely voice and good energy but seems to be acting by the numbers...