Word: blanding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chairs. The rogue with the shag hairdo and glittery eye shadow sucking on a kumquat while boasting to his friends that he'd worn "everything Comme des Garons" in honor of the occasion and the older gentleman with a serious dark suit festooned with flaming red slippers enlivened the bland demeanor of an audience mostly clad in stuffy black apparel or Harvard student Abercrombie gear. The former was understandable; after all, "Rei invented black as a color," as we were later told by one of the speakers. Thank God she has forayed into colors of a brighter nature, offering hopeful...
...human aspect of his stories (it's no coincidence that Blade Runner is his best film) and here the human relationships are often severely lacking, cold even. The friendship between Maximus and a fellow gladiator (played by Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) has no emotional resonance, nor does his bland romance (if you want to call it that) with the emperor's sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics...
...illustrates the ludicrous extent to which political correctness has reached. Should all Asian-Americans portrayed in the media be tall, science-hating, incredibly popular people? Should all minorities portrayed in the media be completely removed any characteristic that might be taken as a stereotype--in other words be made bland, boring and unbelievable...
...cult figure among geeks for his Dilbert comic strip about office life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...
...better "performing arts center" than a "student center," although the latter is still sorely needed. Nevertheless, plans to renovate the Pudding should embrace as many different performing arts groups as possible. This goal would allow the new Pudding to involve the largest possible number of students without becoming another bland and featureless Loker Commons...