Word: blandly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keith Hamilton Cobb hates his steady job being a "bland" good guy on All My Children. So he's leaving for L.A. and more challenging roles. "I don't mind playing the scum of the earth if he can also recite Byron," he says. Wait a minute. Haven't we seen this episode before? Roger Howarth, sick of being a good guy, left One Life to Live for L.A. late last year. And where is he now? Back on One Life to Live...
Popular culture has long been derided for its failure to take artistic risks, but this summer marks a new low in the calculated deliberation of its bland content...
...finally, one might easily forget about the humans, who are hindered by many stretches of painfully bland dialogue of the move-the-plot sort, as if the writers were fearful of departing from the formulaic awkwardness of courtship. O'Connell as Joe gamely spends his time undergoing the gags tossed at him throughout the movie, but usually sounds even more stilted than this one-trick-bug of a movie allows. Ward's Lily isn't given much to do but be pursued, compliment Joe and act nobly...
Today, the American theology of the '50s--the middle class's belief in the government's bland benevolence--is a dying creed. Rising expectations have given way to escalating suspicions about those in power. It isn't only the Montana Freemen who believe that we have met the enemy and he is U.S. "We know we've been lied to," says Bryce Zabel, Dark Skies' co-creator, "about Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra." Moreover, as ID4's Emmerich notes, "every generation creates its own mythology. Now the mythology centers on the government's hiding the dead alien bodies it discovered...
...surprisingly insecure. With strangers, her eyes seek out approval. Her charm is palpable, her graciousness as carefully applied as her glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever...