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...“This is not just a bland box with holes punched in.” The architect insists it is the “humanity” of his buildings that sets them apart from others....
...Glenn Tiffert, a research fellow at the University of Michigan, found that two of China’s main online databases for scholarly articles had removed dozens of articles that questioned the Communist party’s...
...It is dispelling the idea you have to make simple, bland music to appeal to the masses. It has proved them wrong.”...
...“The figures speak for themselves but we have to put them into the perspective of what’s been happening since 2002,” said Glenn McCartney, an assistant professor of gaming and hospitality management at the...
...“The Hong Kong room had a glass bathroom wall here,” he adds, pointing to a bland wall featuring an obligatory hotel watercolour....
...Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist at ANZ bank in Singapore, says Mr Widodo’s plans to revamp healthcare and education, cut the $21bn fuel subsidy bill and upgrade ailing infrastructure could be blocked...
...Elisha Willis, channelling Grace Kelly with her honey blonde chignon, did what she could with Bintley’s bland and underwritten heroine....
...Deforestation of peat is happening at an accelerating rate in Borneo, for example,” said Glenn Hurowitz, managing director of Climate Advisers, a consultancy part-funded by the Norwegian government and which...
...“We made it and it ate us,” says co-leader Glenn Frey of the group’s dizzying ascent in the mid-1970s, and its subsequent demise. Never did feel-good turn so quickly into misery....
...Despite fancy decorations and time-consuming presentation, this is the food of middle America – familiar, comforting and bland....
...The Childhood of Jesus, by JM Coetzee, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99, 288 pages A lost boy and the kindly man who cares for him are the central figures in Coetzee’s conjured world of Novilla, a bland place...
...The BBC is basically bland but often slips over to the left – you always know which way it’s going to go.” Opinionated broadcasting may come quite soon....
...that a transparency culture simply causes a displacement of the semi-private into the wholly private – with public figures relying more on public relations to act as a shield, and turning an increasingly bland...
...Subtle or bland? The dividing line is a fine one. Either way it does not make a big emotional impact....
...The two men most responsible for this explosion of talent are Glenn Mills and Stephen Francis, who between them coach virtually all the top names....
...Ben Bland, London Harvey Pitt: I’m reminded of the old joke - what happens when you cross a lion with a parrot - the response, of course is “I don’t know, but when it talks, you listen”!...
...Taniguchi is a complete unknown to most of New York’s artistic cognoscenti: his proposed design was so understated it seemed almost bland....
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