Word: blanding
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When Kevin C.L. Ching ’06 and Elena H. Matsui ’06 saw the hallway of their Currier double, they cringed. It wasn’t that their suite was tiny or unequipped. It was just, well, bland. “We didn’t want [our rooms] to be sterile,” Ching says. And COOP mirrors and Abbey Road definitely wouldn’t fly. They immediately set to work transforming their suite into a dorm-sized shrine to travel, to friendship, and to sex. Ching claims to have...
...disabled 40-year-old British artist and photographer Alison Lapper, has stirred debate across London, not just over the meaning of art but also about the city's evolving identity. To some, the sculpture's prominent display owes more to political correctness than to aesthetic merit--"Purely empty, deeply bland and silly," says art critic Matthew Collings, author of This Is Modern Art. Others call it an uplifting tribute to womankind. But more interesting than the reactions it provokes are the ones it doesn't. If the sculpture has met with less than universal acclaim, it has also failed...
...college course, then denied it to the ethics committee, is less murky, at least on the basis of the committee's report. It offers a full record of instances in which Gingrich declared that his purpose was to raise up a generation of G.O.P. activists. Against those, his bland assurances in at least two letters to the investigating committee that the course was "completely nonpartisan" ring hollow...
Nonetheless, Steve Iskovitz, Cambridgeport resident and a councilor candidate in 2001 called this year’s race “a pretty bland election...
...more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective, but out of the three sections evokes the least emotional response to the prints. Without a more academic appreciation for photography, the pictures in this section seem oddly juxtaposed, bland and flat. Webb’s photograph in Uganda is one of the most pleasing, yet seems strangely out of place as one of two international photographs and one of just a few color photographs in the entire gallery. The most emotionally unsettling section is the “Social...