Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...choose your subjects? A: For portraits, I prefer to shoot older people. There's a landscape in a face. Young people - their faces are bland. For fashion, I don't find those anorexic 13-year-old girls very interesting. Blonde starlets? Boring. I prefer Sigourney Weaver. But don't forget...
...hijackers achieved stealth by design and happenstance. For one thing, they lived quiet lives. They resided in low-rent, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and often wore the bland American uniform: khakis and polos. What was striking about many of them, in retrospect, is that there was nothing striking about them. "It amazes me how ordinary these guys looked, yet they ended up being involved in probably the greatest crime in American history," says Corey Moore, assistant manager of Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., where five of the hijackers worked...
...particularly upsetting to hear that the Harvard Square Defense Fund has joined the anti-Tommy’s crusade, rather than directing its ire at the bland commercialization of Abercrombie & Fitch or Pacific Sunwear. Undergraduates have lived in Cambridge for hundreds of years, and college life is just as much a part of historic Cambridge as quiet residential areas (which are generally not found so close to Harvard Square...
...turn, stuck to his bland and uninspired script. "Married for 34 years?.I'm not a perfect man?I never asked anyone to lie?." He followed the Lenny Bruce dictum so often embraced by politicians and raised to an art form by Bill Clinton: deny, deny, deny...
...lines by hanging out with U.S.C. sorority girls to prepare for this role. But she knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes turn cold with contempt for square adulthood. Or squinch up in shrewd calculation of how to use (or abuse) the cluelessness of grownups...