Word: blanding
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...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...
...brought to you by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It's all part of the media titan's grand plan to captivate the world's biggest audience. News Corp. thinks it knows what must-see TV means to the Chinese people, and it's not the bland melodramas, giddy variety shows and propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central and provincial governments. Nor is it the warmed-over Western cartoons and overseas dramas that are dubbed into Mandarin and recycled on the mainland by News Corp.'s main foreign competitor, AOL Time...
...bellows "I was a Green Beret in Vietnam" on Metallica's version of 53rd & 3rd as if he were auditioning for Oliver Stone, while Marilyn Manson, who once seemed a suitable heir to the Ramones (or at least Alice Cooper) turns The KKK Took My Baby Away into a bland bit of Goth melodrama. The Ramones' songbook demands energy and wit. Rancid gets the energy prize, flying through Sheena Is a Punk Rocker an inconceivable 58 seconds faster than the Ramones did, while Bono drops into a drolly perfect growl on U2's Beat on the Brat...