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While most recent changes have been commendable, one change has not been for the better. HDS seems to have traded variety among its dishes for the more frequent presentation of such banal entrees as grilled chicken, barbeque chicken, fried chicken, chicken, parmesan, chicken fingers, chicken wings, chicken piccata, garlic chicken and General Wong's chicken. We like chicken, but enough is enough. After all, variety is the spice of life. Also, despite efforts to accommodate vegetarian needs, there has been a continuing lack of quality, nutrition and, most of all, variety among vegetarian options. HDS should make a goal...
...these ideas, Novak's suggestion that the black people of this country ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...
...honestly, griping about the Oscars is not only a futile occupation, it's banal and overpracticed. Why waste the time or the print? Instead, accepting the nominees as given, here's my breakdown on who will, could and should walk off with the little Golden...
...infinitely better than his point, which as the novel progresses comes across more and more as a cartoonish attempt at profundity. While he does touch on themes that ring painfully true regarding modern views on death, technology, loneliness and lack of purpose, too often he mixes them with banal platitudes or smart-ass witticisms that reduce his ideas to the absurd...
...plot is painfully obvious. We know everything that will happen 15 minutes before it does. Granted, this may be excusable--in a film about the Titanic, we know the ship has to sink and that almost everybody will die. Nevertheless, the dialogue did not need to be so banal. At times, I found myself mouthing lines along with the characters...