Word: banality
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...virtues are vanquished, and the Simpson family returns to the same banal, television-numbed, escapist life...
...brides, cops beating up the citizenry. But in the great rush to see their lives replayed on TV, who can be bothered to edit the gems they have recorded? Result: the world's greatest collection of truly awful videotapes -- a vast library of raw footage even more droning and banal than the reality it purports to document...
...caricatures -- and is an enlightening exhibition, though not a consoling one. John Wayne would have disapproved. The exhibition shows how the vast exculpatory fiction of Manifest Destiny wound its way round the facts of conquest and turned them into art. It therefore does a valuable service, even in the banal aesthetic quality of much of the work in it -- those earnest efforts of small, provincial talents whose work would not be worth studying except for the clarity with which it enshrines the obsessive themes of an expansionist America...
...finishing its run at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, and affords the utmost contrast to the work of his New York imitator -- Salle learned about hand painting his mass-media source images. And from the late paintings of Francis Picabia, he extracted (as Polke did, much more inventively) the banal mannerism of painting figures and things as though they were transparent, drawing them over the top of other things and figures...
Harvard students and faculty have been betrayed by the Kennedy School of Government. The Kennedy School recently retracted its support for a necessary but banal proposal to encourage openly gay and lesbian faculty and students to come to the school after the administration was confronted with hysterical applicants and donors who criticized the initiative...