Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crazy for You was greeted with all but universal cheers last week, less for what the show is -- a pleasant evening of well-loved songs and imaginative choreography hitched to a slow narrative, obvious jokes, completely undefined characters and mediocre performances -- than for its shameless retrospection, its bland assertion that Broadway's future lies in its past. The second act contains two gratuitous slurs on the "concept" musicals that have dominated the past decade: a visual slap at Grand Hotel and a verbal slam toward Les Miserables. Yet those shows have precisely what Crazy for You so painfully lacks: propulsive...
Since his very first election to the Lowell City Council, Tsongas has been known for his firm, generally liberal stands on a variety of issues, but never for his style. So the candidate who has been called droopy, boring, bland and uncharismatic has changed his approach--now he makes jokes about being droopy, boring, bland and uncharismatic...
Clinton, meanwhile, in his fifth term as governor of Arkansas, is the smoothest of the smooth. While media critics were accusing Tsongas of being bland in the last few months, Clinton drew fire for allegedly sleeping around on his wife...
THERE WILL NO doubt be objections raised that other houses have their cultures, however bland or disappointingly yea-saying they may be. Houses like Quincy and Lowell (the houses of Quincy and Lowell, actually) will surely suffer if they attempt to absorb the overflow. The answer, of course, is for them to institute the same form of restrictions. If convenience is the only point, there's always the Union. You don't have to be heavy into semiotics to get that message...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Barbara Burke, Val Castronovo, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Susanne Washburn, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...