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...handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also manages to avoid the standard genre trick of trotting out every bland hypocrisy behind the picket fence...
...globes: everything is deliberate, planned, sanitized. What we get with a place that seemingly caters to everyone is an artificial Disneyland that is useful to none. And perhaps it is from this that the unsettling strangeness arises. Cambridge is like a bizarre Pleasantville—safely generic, abercrombifiedly bland, and disconcertingly eerie...
...choose your subjects? A: For portraits, I prefer to shoot older people. There's a landscape in a face. Young people - their faces are bland. For fashion, I don't find those anorexic 13-year-old girls very interesting. Blonde starlets? Boring. I prefer Sigourney Weaver. But don't forget...
...hijackers achieved stealth by design and happenstance. For one thing, they lived quiet lives. They resided in low-rent, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and often wore the bland American uniform: khakis and polos. What was striking about many of them, in retrospect, is that there was nothing striking about them. "It amazes me how ordinary these guys looked, yet they ended up being involved in probably the greatest crime in American history," says Corey Moore, assistant manager of Gold's Gym in Greenbelt, Md., where five of the hijackers worked...
...particularly upsetting to hear that the Harvard Square Defense Fund has joined the anti-Tommy’s crusade, rather than directing its ire at the bland commercialization of Abercrombie & Fitch or Pacific Sunwear. Undergraduates have lived in Cambridge for hundreds of years, and college life is just as much a part of historic Cambridge as quiet residential areas (which are generally not found so close to Harvard Square...