Word: blandly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MacLeod (lights) achieve just the right balance between the seedy and the dreamlike in this California pierside. Most of the 25 actors are only adequate, however, and not one has a first-rate singing voice. Jeff McCarthy has a sledgehammer unsubtlety as the unscrupulous impresario Rocky, Thomas Nahrwold is bland in the underwritten lead role of a failed film director, and Kathy Morath plays his despairing partner with an unrelenting snarl...
...these people see themselves as morally normal -- and playwright Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's leading comedist, plainly thinks they are. Although the corruption depicted in A Small Family Business embraces fraud, the Mafia and murder, it takes place in bland, beige, suburban houses where the residents are preoccupied with recipes, hemlines and their dogs. And while the accents are recognizably British, the decor and, by implication, the bad behavior would seem right at home in Middle America...
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 Young...
...went to the pub where my friend had discovered the shepherd's pie on the menu. Walking past the pink-curtained, glass storefront and through the door, I knew immediately that, even in England, the Perfect Pie would prove elusive. The pie at the pub was forgettably bland...
...Marcel Proust's teacup ride. Euro Disney is the familiar all-American park somehow landed on 5,000 acres of wheat fields and beet fields in Marne- la-Vallee, 20 miles east of Paris. The attractions do not presume to explain Europe to Europe; instead they celebrate America the bland and beautiful, and reinvent it, Disney-style. Hence the transcontinental, cross- cultural ruckus...