Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right Track," the music sparkles, the lyrics are clever, and the staging is amusingly effective. It's when it strives for simplicity and sincerity that Pippin falls a little short. Songs like "Corner of the Sky" the leitmotiv for the whole musical, are just a little bland...
...International Style, which dominated the architecture of the past generation, gave us bland high-rise boxes, not skyscrapers. The tallest buildings seldom give us a lift. As Chicago Architect Harry Weese observed, these minimal sculptures of maximum size "neglected the ground, the sky and, most of all, the user...
...Network Television Predict, it will probably make its final bow as a Wednesday Night Movie of the Week. The problem is, it belonged on the tube in the first place Like too many other movies today, Jinsed resembles nothing so much as the average T.V. movie, smoothly made, predictable, bland, and incapable of arousing any interest or excitement whatsoever...
...film. Unfortunately, the redoubtable presence of Bette Midler can't either. She doesn't get a chance to act seriously, as she did in The Rose; for can she turn the whole thing into a high-camp parody, as in her wonderful stage shows. The material is simply too bland to get hold of, Even Midler's trademarks, the peroxide hair and fluorescent clothes, don't glitter as they usually...
THESE TWO PERFORMANCES stand out above the rest, though Julia Poirier plays an impeccably bland mom. Douglas Faigel does a very lovely pretty boy as Jimmy's friend Kurtis. Susan Damplo provides a sharp-tongued fall to Jimmy as his sister Millicent and David Fruloll's expressive eyes make up or his less-than convincing stoop as the servant Clive...