Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today's Hearst papers are a mostly pallid lot. The San Francisco Examiner, however, has brightened considerably under Publisher (and founder's grandson) Will Hearst, while the San Antonio Light has improved its design and added more feature stories. Nearly all make money either because they are the only papers in town or because, as in the case of the Examiner, they have entered into joint operating agreements with their competitors, allowing both papers to save on production costs. But, admits Bennack, "it's no secret that we have had some significant problems in the newspaper field." Los Angeles...
...catch-phrase "significant form," made it just fine to despise new English art in the name of the French avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything else, however strong. They both disliked vorticism, the remarkable English movement that combined elements of cubism, futurism and Dada and centered on the belligerent genius of Wyndham Lewis, painter, soldier, novelist, critic and editor of Blast. Bell in 1917 sneered at the "new spirit in the little backwater, called English...
...packed in the company's trademark mustard-colored cans; now they are sold in supermarkets in typical air-cushioned bags. In Ohio, the loyalty lines are drawn between chips made by two old local outfits: the good, blond wafers of Mike-sell's, produced in Dayton, and the more pallid, "marcelled" Ballreich product, from Tiffin...
With halting steps, the pallid but ever fierce Iranian leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86, last week stepped out of his long seclusion. He appeared at the Jamaran mosque outside Tehran, where he made a speech to mark the eighth anniversary of the Shah's overthrow...
...sparsely narrated action scenes of the book are interrupted by long sections during which Maspero has Cat meditate on what he has learned and who he has become. None of these sections quite rings true--they are too pat and preachy, as in Cat's huffy rejection of the pallid values of his aunt and uncle...