Word: banalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...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...
...ideal solution might not be some brilliantly designed, singular project but a broad-based effort to heighten campus awareness and facilitate community dialogue. Organizing panel discussions might seem banal or trite, but it would probably be more effective than setting aside a lump sum of money for a yet-to-be determined project. Community outcries, such as the pledge signed by Mather House residents following homophobic vandalism on the door of a gay tutor, might lack tangible results but go a long way toward reminding us to be ever vigilant against bigotry in our community...
...first to sense this with his translucent Brancusi-esque dollop of a toothbrush for Fluocaril in 1989. Now pharmaceutical companies have released a plethora of toothbrushes--ridged, twisted, tapered, with bands, dots and swirls. The same philosophy applies to dozens of products we used to regard as banal--garbage cans, toilet brushes and cheese graters. They're cute, they're cheap and they're disposable...
...lecture series and on-site concerts. These efforts, they hope, will turn the public's detached admiration of art into active aesthetic engagement. However, the typical experience of an art museum remains much like our reaction to the year's first snowfall: first it's impressive, later it's banal and finally, we just wish it would go away...