Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time periods following established winners are predominantly the shows that survive. As the networks grow more obsessed with scheduling tactics and audience-flow gimmicks, a show's actual quality seems almost irrelevant. It certainly looks so this season. With one startling, heartening exception, the fall newcomers are a mostly bland and predictable bunch...
Ethnic cuisine will have "more authentic, fuller flavor," Berry says. "Food of every kind will taste more like what it's supposed to be," he says. "There won't be one bland flavor to everything anymore...
...course, there's that letter. Every year, a thin envelope wings its way to the front door of every Harvard and Radcliffe student's permanent residence. Inside, the eager openers perennially find the disappointment of a bland letter from Deans Lawrence Buell, L. Fred Jewett '57 and Jeremy Knowles. They want to know what's wrong with your education. As a student, your big chance has finally come...
...delay the opening of many D.C. public schools; and Congress, which acts as overseer to the D.C. government, is threatening to take action on the city's chronic budget deficit. Having soured on Kelly, those who would vote for anyone but Barry are turning increasingly to Ray, a bland 15-year veteran of the city council and a perennial runner-up in mayoral elections. His campaign has focused largely on the promise to restore the city's tattered image and improve its relations with Congress...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen...