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...The no-frills fleece — affordable, asexual, a bit bland and borderline unflattering — has an uncool allure of its own....
...While it waits for new premises to be finished, Hackney New Primary School in east London is housed in a series of Portakabins, huddled beneath a bland and sprawling council estate....
...Here’s south China correspondent Ben Bland’s take on the mess....
...The latter seems too bland, too slippery and unsatisfying a category: too likely to lend itself to the kind of canon formation that flattens out cultural specificity....
...For decades, housebuilding in the UK has tended to deliver bland monocultures, council estates and executive homes on the edge of towns and villages. In its small way, Poundbury stems that tide....
...Leon Panetta, US defence secretary, on Saturday said the US would deploy 60 per cent of its naval assets, including warships and submarines, in the Pacific by 2020, up from the current 50 per cent....
...Additional reporting by Ben Bland in Jakarta...
...“When I was young, my head seemed bland: I never had the narcissism of Courbet or Dürer, who obviously thought themselves marvellous-looking chaps....
...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...
...“This budget protects, and in some cases increases, investments that are critical to our ability to project power in Asia,” Leon Panetta, defence secretary, said last month....
...There was Koolhaas, Zaha, [the classicist] Léon Krier and [the deconstructivist] Bernard Tschumi all at the same time....
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