Word: blandly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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REPORTED BY David Bjerklie and Sharon E. Epperson/New York, Ann Blackman/Washington and Richard Woodbury/Denver. CHARTS RESEARCHED BY Deborah L. Wells, Kathleen Adams, Elizabeth L. Bland, Ratu Kamlani and Richard Rubin
...same applies to adult programs offered by CPB--particularly news. With one or two exceptions, all network news programs consist of five-second sound bites and bland, superficial reporting. Neither the television nor the radio markets have given rise to high-quality news, and it is doubtful that the CPB shows will be able to survive for long if they have to compete with tasteless but popular trash such as A Current Affair or Hard Copy...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Lina Lofaro, Lisa McLaughlin, Lawrence Mondi, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, Sribala Subramanian, David E. Thigpen...
...BOOKS . . . A PRIVATE VIEW (Random House; 242 pages; $23): This wise and funny novel is about love between two people with very little in common: a woman filled with flaky California-isms (adept as she is in Vibrasound, Tantric Massage, Reflexology, Color Counseling) and a decent and honest -- but bland -- man. The book, says Time critic Martha Duffy, is a "welcome surprise." In the end, the duo part, but Brookner's "triumph lies in the story's resolution...
...basket of hot buns. The delivery is complicated and they call for the doctor, but has eaten so much be can't stand. Fengxia's life hangs by a thread and the only doctor for miles lies unconscious in the next room, stuffed with buns. Zhang Yimou takes inherently bland components and constructs a thing of beauty and dark humor...