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That may be changing. Since September 1972, a 25-year-old Hearst grandson and the family's current power broker at the Examiner, "Willie" III, has revived some of the old spirit and innovative kick of grandpa. He has successfully pushed the nondescript Examiner into making its most striking changes in decades, including a new six-column page format (which may make its debut this month), a reduced page size to save money, more minority reporters, and expanded investigative and news coverage...
...thing, Gregg's voice was gone, replaced by Betts's plain, unpretentious vocal that weaved in and out of songs so that you hardly noticed the transitions--a bluegrass voice, nondescript. The music itself was still rock--as up-tempo as ever, built around solos; more lyrical and melodic, but essentially structured in the same way. Yet the tone is utterly different--after listening to Betts for a while, even though one's usual appetite for complexity and energy is what's responding, it's impossible to endure the old relentless rock--it sounds fatiguing, heavy...
...production without flourishes, largely without heights and depths. After a bumpy overture, the chorus of "gentlemen of Japan" appears on stage in hideous white makeup and nondescript floppy bathrobes. The one conceivable excuse for the makeup--trying to make everyone look alike in a "seen one Jap you've seen 'em all" kind of way--is hardly achieved and hardly worth trying for. But this is the kind of mistake that you can get used to in the course of a production. Worse is a lack of imagination in characterization, delivery, choreography, lighting and musical arrangement...
...obstacle. After elaborate negotiations, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager was chauffeured to his recent rendezvous with Arafat, who is head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, through the twisting streets of Lebanon's capital in a guerrilla staff car. Prager met Arafat in a modest flat in a nondescript apartment building guarded by fedayeen armed with Soviet AK-47 assault rifles...
...left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...