Word: bland
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...resulting cascade has been breathtaking. Until Madoff admitted to his family that his entire career as one of the most successful money managers in the world was a fraud, the global economic collapse did not have a face. Men like Chuck Prince and Stan O'Neal were too bland and their sins were based on greed and stupidity not genius and deception...
...discovered her passion for a superior sip. "In China, businesspeople would show off by buying a $120 pot of tea at lunch," she says. "I'd never tasted anything like it." Made from leaves grown and processed on small mountain gardens, those exquisite infusions were far removed from the bland British teabag - which can contain leaves from up to 60 factory farms. "I realized that Britain was drinking the equivalent of blended whiskey," recalls Lovell. "We'd never tried the single malt of the tea world...
...Hotshot attorney Liv (Kate Hudson) and schoolteacher Emma (Anne Hathaway) have been best friends since childhood. Their shared greatest ambition is to get married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Each has a bland boyfriend, and both men propose within days of each other. They are interchangeable but for the size of the engagement rings they provide - Liv's Daniel (Steve Howey) hands over a couple of carats from Tiffany's, while Emma's Fletcher (Chris Pratt) comes home with just under a carat. This means two lavish weddings to plan and the equivalent of two down payments...
...secret agent and Anatoly’s chess second, Jay D. Musen ’09 reaches registers lower than Siberian temperatures. Vanessa Tantillo entertains as the brassy arbiter who just wants the players to finish the game. But it is Mallory who takes the spotlight. Despite a bland script, she portrays a fully realized Florence. Her singing hits the mark throughout, and her songs, “Heaven Help My Heart” and “I Know Him So Well,” are the most successful pieces of the musical...
...take a more serious turn, whatever fun the movie once had quickly vanishes, and we suddenly get 40 minutes of Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman making out in the rain. Normally that wouldn’t be a bad thing, but the chemistry between Drover and Lady Ashley is bland and superficial. The tough guy/high-society girl romance is a contrived and overplayed one, and Jackman and Kidman aren’t stretching their acting skills in the slightest.This tired romance also overshadows the more worthwhile story of assimilation in Australia, where Aboriginal children were removed from their families...