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...behavior is within the normal range of human-computer interactions. I know an editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological...
...division of the DIA will be given a bland name: the Defense Humint Service (humint is spy jargon for human intelligence -- that is, information collected by agents on the ground). The CIA will oversee the intelligence targets of this new branch of agents. "They'll send a lot of guys out who just look like military men in suits," sniffed one veteran cia officer. Still, the military's spy operations have delivered crucial intelligence to the Pentagon in the past...
Family gatherings don't often take place in the bland hearing rooms of the Federal Communications Commission, but last week Rupert Murdoch showed up with his wife, daughter and son-in-law and grabbed front-row seats. When his daughter Elisabeth began showing off baby pictures, a grinning Murdoch joked, "Hey now, cut that...
...problem is that they are tan. Tan is the color of boredom. It is the color of dry dirt. It is the color of the junk you dig out of your eyes in the morning. There is nothing interesting of significant about the color tan. Note the vowelrhyme with 'Bland...
...Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell it like it is" brought a refreshing skepticism to the traditionally bland idolatry of "color" commentary. Ultimately, however, Cosell was immolated by his own verbal fire: slashing at colleagues, denouncing American sport itself, the Mouth That Roared talked itself into an embittered retirement...