Word: banalized
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...theaters. One type, he said, toward ambitious themes crept, But was “crippled by the fact that the execution was so technically inept.” The other bad poetry type is all About topics that are “inane” or “banal.” Galligan and Jon Haber, the other co-curato’ Are former hosts of the oddball TV show “Channel Zero.” Where the two men presented movie clips obscure. It’s similar to finding strange poems, for sure. A decade...
...aesthetic, but from early on, just like Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, he's been making pictures that are brilliantly open to the flotsam of the visible world, the little accidents of vision and oddball details that snapshots automatically gather up. He is fascinated by American junk-space, the banal stretches of tract housing and strip malls. But there's nothing camp or ironic about Eggleston's work. The power of his pictures rests on their casual but absolute sincerity, their conviction that small is beautiful. There's something very American about this, a valorization of the commonplace, carried...
...only thing elevating this otherwise banal movie is Josh Brolin’s performance. He truly inhabits Bush, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that he successfully depicts him over a span of 40 years. Playing the current president is undoubtedly intimidating, but Brolin makes a complex character out of a seemingly less-than-complicated man. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast falls into caricature. In particular, Thandie Newton’s Condoleezza Rice seems like an amateur “Saturday Night Live” impersonation...
Perhaps if the federal government deemed Election Day important enough to make a holiday, voting would seem more important than yet another banal errand...
...Water.” For an album that poses so many questions and contains so many engaging songs, “Lady” disappoints as the final offering. Earley, accompanied by mellow, soporific guitar, merely paints another nature image, which by this point in the album has grown banal and uninteresting. An album that takes so many ambitious leaps certainly should not end so blandly. While not a flawless jewel by any stretch, “Furr” is still a success for the band’s first record-label release. Trapper effectively shows their love...