Word: blanding 
              
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Below are several of Silverman’s tips for saving space and money while spicing up a bland apartment...
...group uses ethnic instruments like bongos and djembes to complement more common percussion instruments, creating a “delightful bland of the tribal and theatrical,” says Kyle J. Berkman ’06. But they are perhaps best known for their creative use if everyday items, influenced by shows like Stomp and “Blue Man Group...
These are good ideas--often better than their execution. Fingaz, of rap group Onyx, is authentic and intense as the bad boy, but the brothers' Goofus-and-Gallant dichotomy needs to be less, well, black-and-white, and the supporting players are bland. Platinum is influenced by rap video (lots of slo-mo and bling bling), maybe too much--it trusts our attention spans so little that it repeats flashes of scenes that ran minutes before. But in the first episode, the show is adventurous and provocative enough to deserve a chance. In an easy-listening TV season, Platinum...
...Rahimi. A fourth-year grad student at MIT, Rahimi devised a way to conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
George Lopez is not as good as Roseanne--the characters usually reach too neat little epiphanies as each episode ends--but is far better than when it started last spring as a bland family comedy with a dash of salsa. As the show explored George's learning about his father and dealing with the emotions that discovery dredged up, it came alive. It has held its own against reality juggernaut American Idol and got an early go-ahead for a third season...