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...pastry image long enough to take a bite out of them. And what did they discover? As one Tokyo shopkeeper said last week: "They taste the same as all the other cakes." A lot of Japanese now think Koizumi is like those cakes - good looking on the outside; bland and predictable on the inside...
...really happened. Scott answers that “once you start writing it all becomes fiction.” The whole of Fiction clocks in at around half an hour, and with the short running time, it suffers from a lack of character development, a wooden plot construct and bland cinematography. The students in the class never become more than voiceboxes for criticism of Solondz’s previous work, and the provocative questions involving Vi and Scott concerning the environment of political correctness in pedagogical relationships and the slippery nature of exploitation only become muddied and lost when grounded...
...human body, as a part of the world, is wretched and a burden to the soul, which was created by God. The soul can only be truly free when it has left the shackles of the body. No pleasure should be taken in anything physical whatsoever. Food should be bland and only the minimum amount necessary for survival should be consumed. Any sexual activity, marital or otherwise...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
Like its chart-topping hard-rock colleagues in Staind, Creed may prove to be a lesson in Rock 101 for the Britney generation, a bland Big Mac to wean the kids off musical Gerber. But after a few bites of what this band serves up, experienced buds will crave more exotic fare--like Pearl...