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...With bland pop fare ruling American radio and the once popular Lollapalooza tour falling by the wayside, this year's Africa Fete offers a compelling summer alternative. "The attraction is that this is some of the most exciting music on the planet," says Blackwell. "It's ancient and it's modern at the same time. There are rhythms and sounds here that you will hear nowhere else in America." For the performers it's a chance to reach a potentially huge new audience. Mursal speaks Somali, Arabic, Danish and only a little English, but when asked if she's excited...
...nasty three-way race for California's Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Gray Davis was supposed to be the roadkill candidate: a bland career politician squashed by two glamorous multimillionaire opponents--airline tycoon Al Checchi and Representative Jane Harman. Davis, the state's solid but uninspiring lieutenant governor, was ignored by pundits and written off by insiders who are convinced that California has entered the age of the "virtual campaign," in which elections are won and lost solely in the ectoplasm of television ads. According to this theory, Californians don't follow politics, and the local news media barely cover...
...always colored within the lines. With the possible exception of a neon yellow turtleneck I once wore on Halloween, my clothing would never catch your eye. My hairstyle and my taste in music are about as bland as your average oatmeal. And yet, by Harvard standards, I have become a rebel...
...Science and Technology Directorate has a bland enough name. But within the CIA, the covert operatives of S&T are the most secretive and closed-mouthed of the agency's spies, with good reason. While billion-dollar signal-intelligence satellites vacuum up phone conversations from space, it is the S&T's techno-spooks on the ground who are cracking encryption codes and breaking into buildings overseas to plant bugs or parking themselves outside in vans to listen in on phone calls surreptitiously with high-tech electronic gear. No wonder the CIA heaved a collective shudder last week when...
Winslet's mother is a greedy social climber who revels in the obnoxious snobbery of Winslet's finance and his friends. The old-wealth aristocrats look down upon Kathy Bates, the crass, straight-shooting caricature of the nouveau riche. Of course, Cameron also makes bland references to the injustice of class oppression. Several back-to-back shots reveal that the ship's wealthy patrons are only able to enjoy its luxuries because of the sweat of the poor workers laboring below deck...