Word: blandly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Commission testimony are like a vast, inchoate Great American Novel in that respect.) I didn't feel I was any closer to solving the Kennedy assassination, but I did feel I had learned more about the America that produced both Kennedy and his assassin than was conveyed by the bland, complacent sitcom image of the nation and its institutions that prevailed in November...
...10th grade Paglia got her first taste of social ostracism and its consequences. Some of the pretty blonds in her class suddenly turned into bland, cliquish sorority queens. She was left behind as a tomboy with a serious case of ambition. The lesson was not lost on her; to this day she sides fiercely with the outsider...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams...
...worst problems at General Motors in recent years has been the bland similarity of its products, which seem to have been stamped by the same cookie cutter. At a new-model preview several years ago, a Cadillac engineer was asked his opinion of the main difference between the look-alike Chevrolet Cavalier and Cadillac Cimarron. "About $5,000," he said dismissively. Many 1980s-era models were also prosaic, underpowered and poorly executed. But a handful of new models demonstrate that GM divisions, when well motivated and organized, can build distinctive, high-quality products. A sampler...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams...