Word: banalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make a virtue of exile by telling the story of the Senator's failed presidential bid from the perspective of the TV crews and others on the overflow buses. But the mash note to his fellow riders turns to wholesale gush as he pants over their observations, the banal as well as the smart, reminding us that this is Wallace's first up-close look at a campaign. Worse, some details are made up, tainting the sharp insights he does offer...
These movies, like Best in Show, are about people lost in their banal dreams, and the films' appeal depends on not calling attention to their silliness, on permitting them to maintain their premises...
...weakest and least representative piece-Koo Jeong-a's "Oslo," a miniature sand-dune topography made of aspirin filings-is, ironically, the one selected for the cover of the catalogue. In an otherwise pithy exhibit, this oblique and banal concept piece is a huge misstep. (The curators appear equally confused, commenting on it only with the flustered remark that it "raises questions about the fundamental idea of landscape...
...something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal, ordinary objects in his apartment and studio, Guston began to paint shoes, books, easels, clocks and the like with a confident, almost crude, naivet, reveling in the physical nature of things, of paint and of the act of painting. The ensemble of 27 small paintings in A New Alphabet that...
Like figure skating at the winter games, women's gymnastics makes every other sport at the Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments...