Word: blanding
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...through a weekly newsmagazine and watch an evening news program and thereby receive separate, incisive and differing reports on topical subjects. Shortly, you will read TIME, watch CNN and be able to browse AOL's sites. But you will undoubtedly get the feeling you are digesting the same rehashed, bland and insipid "content." The rush to fill Internet bandwidth has dumbed down our media fare. The "new media" have made everything equal to one (and the same). How boring! FRANK KUBICEK New York City...
...Arrow Pub and Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins duo made famous by Good Will Hunting seem to be doomed to the same fate as The Tasty. Because of the gentrification of Harvard Square and rising rents, these landmarks that added a dash of local flavor to our increasingly bland surroundings might soon be replaced by yet another Starbucks...
...also has to wonder how this will affect the Combs-Lopez romance. Lasting relationships are not usually built on dates that end in gunfire and group arrests. But the arrests shouldn't taint Lopez professionally. Says Variety editor Peter Bart: "So many actors today have such a bland demeanor. A slightly dangerous rep might help, or even enhance, her career." As for Combs, who has proclaimed his innocence, his latest CD, Forever, hasn't sold well, and these new legal hassles only add to his worries. Just last April, Combs was arrested for assaulting a record executive, a matter...