Word: blanding
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...prescriptions for Europe are uncharacteristically bland and uncontroversial. Following a run-through of the history of the nation-state, Kissinger explicates the details of a strategy whose main point is the avoidance of combinations of enemies...
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer's contention that Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay is "his generation's Spielberg or Lucas" is as laughable as some of the awful dialogue in that movie [CINEMA, June 4]. When Bay's camera isn't mooning over the three bland lead performances, it is wrapped in the American flag, always the first refuge of the terminally unimaginative...
...Perhaps what distresses me most about Ben?s appeal is that while the world?s 15-year-old girls seem to find him irresistible, I find him bland. More important, perhaps, I find him wholly lacking that ineffable spark that makes a movie star a movie star. I am willing to consider the possibility that I?m not seeing that spark because I?m getting old. Ed Harris does it for me - so does George Clooney. Ben Affleck does not. Is this a rite of passage nobody told me about...
...mirror of official history, the '50s are seen as our most xenophobic decade. That is exactly wrong: then, the seemingly alien cultures of Europe and Asia held endless fascination for Americans who were either back from war service abroad, their aesthetic tastes spiced a bit, or simply tired of bland domestic fare. Foreign-language pictures were suddenly chic, and represented a much broader geographic span than today; world-class auteurs emerged not just from France and Italy but from Japan, India, Sweden. Ingmar Bergman would eventually make the cover of TIME...
...aside the imposing stats. Giddins is impressed by Crosby's importance in the history of pop singing, his talent for vocal nuance and lyric-reading; rather than a bland stylist, the first easy-listening star, Crosby is promoted as, in Artie Shaw's words, "the first hip white person born in the United States." To Giddins, Bing was more. He embodied an attractive prototype: the casual, unflappable American, at ease in his eminence, who faces life with equanimity, win or lose - but who always wins. Giddins also dares to admire the fullness, longevity and ease of Crosby's success...