The question is why this lovely wine doesn't appear on more American tables more often, except in the blandest, "pizza white" versions of Pinot Grigio.

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You're the intermediary between two worlds, which isn't easy, because Ivy League schools tend to admit the blandest, most assimilated, least-ethnic minorities you can imagine.

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Only the very blandest, most media-savvy and controlled people, who have never uttered a controversial sentence in their lives, will be deemed fit to hold public office.

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The country that, some claim, produces the tallest, blandest men in Europe a nation of tolerant, easy-going liberals who appear to have solved all their major social problems turns out to be something quite different.

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Atlantic Yards' new plans show residential buildings that seem to be doing their best to hold their tongues, make nothing more than the blandest statement possible, and pray dearly not to offend the sensibility that has made Brooklyn so attractive to new residents in the past few decades.

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