Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing it, the strangeness lurking beneath the bland surfaces of American life...
...Clive, the bland boyfriend (Les Welter, an MFA candidate in theater arts), he helps the conflict roll along, siding with the daughter only to fall to her wrath later for inquiring about personal details. His character seems entirely superfluous, and does not really contribute to the development of the play...
...most part, Crimson coverage has been fair if sometimes bland, perhaps reflecting the blander nature of the campaign this year. The work of Peggy S. Chen '99 has been good, especially her well-balanced December 5 piece on Rawlins's candidacy and her equally fair November 27 article on the controversial movement for council finance reform. In addition, coverage of the election has been spread among 10 different reporters and editorialists, thus avoiding any individual's views dominating the coverage...
...perhaps it really did boil down to race, after all. How else can we explain white America's bland willingness to accept the mass of physical evidence on face value, assuming that motive, state of mind, lack of alibi, opportunity, matching blood, fiber and hair samples and flight from the law meant that O.J. Simpson had murdered two people...
...officers gather for roll call in a bland, stark room that is plastered with pictures of wanted criminals. The watch commander reads reports from the previous two shifts, highlighting areas that need extra attention...