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...Rahimi. A fourth-year grad student at MIT, Rahimi devised a way to conquer the bane of headsets and bring the flair of pimping, another modern pastime, to the bland world of cell phones. As he says on his website (www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi), “I am the coolest stud at MIT University—I hacked an old school telephone handset onto my cell-phone. Now I walk around Cambridge, MA, looking like a phat pimp...
George Lopez is not as good as Roseanne--the characters usually reach too neat little epiphanies as each episode ends--but is far better than when it started last spring as a bland family comedy with a dash of salsa. As the show explored George's learning about his father and dealing with the emotions that discovery dredged up, it came alive. It has held its own against reality juggernaut American Idol and got an early go-ahead for a third season...
...Elvis personified the naughty Vegas of the 1970s, Dion is the perfect fit for the cleaned-up, family-friendly mecca of 2003. Her music and persona are scrupulously inoffensive--sometimes just bland. But her voice is a natural wonder of immense range and clarity, the kind of irony-free tourist attraction that the new Vegas adores. Most important, Dion has sold 150 million albums worldwide, making her the biggest female singer of all time and a true marquee draw. Still, even Dion realizes that her voice alone isn't worth a $200 ticket. "That's why this show...
...attempt at intellectualized violence bearing all the pitfalls of the action genre: loose ends, latent misogyny, narrative predictability and “novelty” realized only through increased goriness. The Hunted aims for haute couture and ends up with stoned soup: all the familiar leftovers, beaten, bloody and bland. —Ashley Aull...
...mail signature (along with a campus address, room phone number, personal website address, favorite quote, favorite quote in its original language, a joke, a recipe and mother’s maiden name). Heck, I don’t even have a signature, and boy, do my e-mails look bland...