Word: banality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those punkers' punkers, the Boomtown Rats) broods about how iniquitous life is driving him crazy. It is a story so familiar that it requires almost no dialogue to tell. Simple-minded songs from the Pink Floyd's 1979 five-time platinum seller do the job, along with banal, if sometimes lively, imagery supplied by Director Alan Parker (Fame, Midnight Express). He has warmed over and slicked up an anthology of '60s cliches, which may engender a certain nostalgia for the drear old days in those who endured them. Today's adolescents sit gap-mouthed and squirmless...
Weird, heavy and polychrome, the 15-story Portland Building might be Sarastro's Temple of Isis magically transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart's The Magic Flute into the shadows of banal skyscrapers along Portland's Transit Mall. It takes up the entire block between the Italian Renaissance city hall and the neoclassical Multnomah County Courthouse...
...excess, movie-star biography can dampen the spirit not because it fails to reveal, but because it succeeds all too well in revealing what film actors are really like. The truth is that the events of an actor's offstage life are usually just as banal and repetitious as the events of ordinary lives. The big difference-even if there is nothing new under the sun-is that what would be garden-variety problems for most people become much harder to handle when they happen to a star. Not only are they painted with the flamboyance of their milieu...
...director who has sought refuge at a Venetian spa, where he is desperately trying to put together a film and at the same time make sense out of his disorderly life. Arthur Kopit's book is confusing, Maury Yeston's music is forgettable, and his lyrics are banal. Yet Tune's direction is so lively one tends to forget all that. Most directors would be glad just to avoid traffic jams with such a large cast: four boys, one man and 21 women. Tune, by contrast, rejoices in movement, and all 26 seem to flow together...
...most meaningless and banal question in White House news coverage is when does the President's honeymoon end. If it is a honeymoon between President and press, the marriage never existed...