Word: banalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooks is the kind of man who likes to have himself described in press releases as "multitalented." But if his songs sometimes ascend to the banal, he has yet to prove that he can write or direct at all. Dialogue often sounds improvised, and major emotional scenes are sometimes covered entirely by music. When they are not, they lack dynamics and tension. Now he has added lead acting to his repertory of skills, but it is strictly of the smile-and-shamble school. Probably his description should be "multiambitious...
...data about national security. Defense lawyers answered that the sack held little more than "diplomatic chitchat" and assorted trivia. One cable marked SECRET was a published interview. Other sensitive items included copies of the Congressional Record and a book on fish protein concentrate. But some papers were not so banal. Humphrey admitted releasing confidential cables to Truong in the forlorn hope of freeing his mistress. The two defense lawyers cooperated throughout most of the trial, but at the end Humphrey's attorney dramatically turned on Truong, accusing him of being a professional spy who had duped Humphrey into...
...claims he likes rightists and makes other jokes; all agree that talking is a good thing; Chou looks at his watch. Nixon reveals that Chou was capable of sitting through long meetings in Chinese without falling asleep. These glimpses of power are fascinating, but present a pattern of disturbingly banal observations...
...even pay the costs." If the accident is serious, the driver should "collect all car papers and any compromising material, and escape to safety as quickly as possible before police arrive." To preclude confrontations with the cops, revolutionaries should "avoid occasions for argument [and] drive with extreme care. A banal incident can have the gravest consequences...
...when Emmerich states that "Although these controversial theories are interesting, DeVore is simply out of his league...He and his fellow sociobiologists are seemingly unaware of the existing disciplines which deal superficially with human behavior and social structure..."I become outraged at the ignorance of a person so banal and uninformed who could possibly think such a statement. First of all "he and his fellow sociobiologists" is a cop-out. We're talking about DeVore here, and only DeVore. And Irven DeVore did his graduate work in social anthropology at what was (and maybe still is) the leading intellectual center...