This bland new image can't possibly intrigue film makers as much as the old, irresistibly sinful one.

To hear them speak, it is sometimes hard to believe they're responsible for the governor's bland image and press strategy.

For all its focus on a nicer, blander image, there is one thing the Bush campaign wants to be negative about - negative campaigning from the other side.

He had a bland image that fit the colorless team under his charge.

Studiously bland images, they describe an art that is passive, uncomplicated, digestible.

Lately, Dukakis has poked fun at his bland image - "After seven years of charisma, maybe it's time for competence in the White House," he tells audiences.

Gerald R. Ford, because of his bland image, did nothing for the holiday except when he was armed with a golf club.

Was this bland image meant to reassure me, even to entice me?

The superficially bland serialized images have undertones of paranoid suspense - a hangover, maybe, from the cold war.