Word: banality
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...luckily, here at Harvard we are protected from this gurgitation of electronic imagery by one simple measure; our rooms are kept cable-free. Network television ranges from banal to mediocre, and outside of the most hardened reality-TV junkies and Antique Roadshow fetishists, you will find few people who can stomach more than an hour...
...Adams’ other talents is, apparently, adding to our already-rich lexicon—is ravenously sexist itself. It is not society that so intimately links animals and females; it is Ms. Adams and like-minded psychos, within the confines of their delusions about America’s banal, but not speciesist/sexist, pop culture. And to equate, say, the pressing issues of women’s equal rights with the purported “rights” of animals is nothing short of ludicrous. Yet, this is nothing new for the PETA circuit, which has previously launched vile...
...Adams’ other talents is, apparently, adding to our already-rich lexicon—is ravenously sexist itself. It is not society that so intimately links animals and females; it is Ms. Adams and like-minded psychos, within the confines of their delusions about America’s banal, but not speciesist/sexist, pop culture. And to equate, say, the pressing issues of women’s equal rights with the purported “rights” of animals is nothing short of ludicrous. Yet, this is nothing new for the PETA circuit, which has previously launched vile...
...Everybody comes out ahead. So it was that in 1983, Jean-Louis and Gilbert got the money to buy the café in Les Halles that would make them limonade legends, called, not surprisingly, Café Costes. "We realized that all the existing cafés were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says Jean-Louis. The detonator was an unknown designer named Philippe Starck, who modeled the interior after the railroad station in Budapest. Kaboom! Before long, Starck...
Social science and Core sections, in which creativity is supposed to be sparked by stimulating discussions with fellow students and teaching fellows, are truly an intellectual wasteland. Required participation forces everyone to say something (whether constructive or not), and the talk usually devolves into a banal rehashing of the past week’s lectures. A typical section is like a cow chewing cud: ideas are digested a bit in one stomach, regurgitated briefly to be considered again, and finally swallowed. And the hated “response paper,” which asks students to reflect on the week?...