Word: banality
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...recently opened its first "Fight Club" to serve America's untroubled yet troubled marital population. Our series of weekend-vacation workshops not only touches on the Big Five--money, sex, children, time and in-laws--but, more important, teaches couples to unearth the antagonistic possibilities buried within their most banal interactions. ammo's workshops are limited to an enrollment of eight. The following fall 2000 sessions are currently open for enrollment...
...complexity of the situation, the events that take place within The Well are surprisingly banal. With writer's block, infidelity, regret, self-discovery, even a little touch of Dr. Freud, the text fails to offer any insight into our collective behavior, instead settling into the track established by the semi-omniscient narrator/bartender. This approach creates an atmosphere that makes IBOC seem like a lost episode of The Twilight Zone...
...Wicked Queen in Snow White, the stepmom in Cinderella), you'll even get deviant sexuality (we all know Ursula was a drag queen...) The cliche holds true for these female villains - evil really does have many faces. The male villains, in contrast, are have the same unexplained, thuddingly banal goal - world domination. But what about Jafar and Scar, you say? Phluueeaassse. Both of them are excruciatingly effeminate, especially Scar. Their menace comes from their skeeziness. So back to my hypothesis - why are Disney films not as memorable these days? Because we haven't had a female villain since The Little...
...Woody fan, you'll probably adore Small Time Crooks - it's 100%, unabashedly indulgent Woody Allen. If you're new to the Allen canon, Small Time Crooks is actually a good place to start. From the first frame you'll realize how much you've been missing - and how banal every other type of comedy seems in comparison...
...give imaginative life and depth to "Dutch." The Wizard of Oz was a wizard indeed, and he worked great magic (the transformation of Americans' view of their country and the role of their government, for example). But Reagan could also seem to Morris an appallingly and mysteriously empty suit - banal, passive, incurious, abstracted...