Word: bland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure enough, the unthinkable happened. Over toward the corner of the store I found a large kettle-type structure, bubbling and giving off steam. So there it is: Bruegger's puny, bland, generic bagels are also boiled. Maybe it is that New York water after...
...also going to become as bland and tedious as television? There's no word yet on which sites will get the Disney seal of approval, or whether news sites will receive special dispensation from Walt's boys to speak as freely as necessary. "Filtering mechanisms prevent children from obtaining a great deal of useful and appropriate information," says a new report from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. They should know ? in tests on engines not unlike Disney's, searches for, say, "American Red Cross" blocked 90 percent of all sites mentioning the name...
Elliott, initially a tad bland as the "dove"-like American heiress, grows on you: though she never quite captures Milly's intense vitality and will to live, in her final scenes her placidity, affecting without being treacly, is vested with surprising grace. Roache (last seen in the lead role of the controversial Priest) delivers a convincing and finely nuanced performance as the attractive and passionate but indecisive lover who's neither quite strong nor quite weak enough to be a true...
...documentary but soon realized that he was not fulfilling his aim of exposing Sharon's unsavory side. So the focus of the film shifts from Sharon to a fictional version of Mograbi himself. Between shots of Sharon on the campaign trail, the fictional Mograbi sits in his bland yellow den and describes the transformation he underwent in the course of filming...
This tale of a small-town high school teacher (Kevin Kline) whose life turns upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-movie star (Matt Dillon) marks Hollywood's own comingout party. No wonder then that it's a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a fine comic cast. Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, especially in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrific as the sleazy, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps...