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...dumplings: mushy dough and underseasoned filling with a tasty soy sauce. The summer rolls: crunchy and flavorless, with a tasty peanut sauce. The shabu-shabu: decent, I thought, although our companion table had ordered a special broth that they deemed disgusting. The yum yum: somehow both spicy and bland, which not even the administration of the tasty soy and peanut sauces could fix. All together: not bad, but certainly not yum yum.5. Keep your wits about you. After the busboy had come and gone with a Herculean load of dishes, our waitress returned ready to give us our check...
...record, Carlos the pool boy is both gay and European.)Of the two innovations the musical conjured, only one adds to overall pleasure. Elle, out to prove that a nice pink dress is all one needs to conquer the world, decides to make over a somewhat bland Emmett. She turns him from dowdy, studious academic to dapper, corporate god. “The outside is new / but now it reflects what’s already in you / Couldn’t change that if I wanted to / and I do not,” she sings, reflecting on the overall...
...dream.” Preceding track “Money Made,” however, is more representative of the AC/DC of old. It begins with a riff evocative of that immortal “Back in Black” opening line. Though the song starts to feel slightly bland with the continual repetition of “work, work, money made,” when the vocals fade out and leave the instrumentation unadulterated, the band creates pure magic, grounded in the solid interplay between guitar and drums. One of the best tracks on the album...
...money, why not go for something a little more remarkable - dare I say stylish - like a pinstriped Ralph Lauren pantsuit, a spiffy Chanel jacket, or anything by Giorgio Armani? Michelle Obama chose wisely when she picked a floral-printed dress by Thakoon for the convention. Instead Palin opted for bland approximations of what she always wears, a kind of textbook, "safe" Washington insider combo of colorful jacket over black skirt. What a waste...
...vindication of the human spirit and a wonderful thing to have happened to spaces that were so unappealing to people that they never should have been built in the first place.” Thankfully for skateboarding, they were built and have been transformed from bland plazas into The Skate Park That Never Sleeps.—Crimson staff writer Chris R. Kingston can be reached at kingston@fas.harvard...