Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Not that there is nothing good to be said about these records. Given the typical boring synth-pop drivel that pours forth from both radio and television these days, at least these bands try to deviate a little from the norm.
The gay Camelot label, though, doesn't do justice to West Hollywood, whose charm and eccentricity extend far beyond matters of affectional preference. Says Severyn Ashkenazy, who owns a string of small, elegant hotels in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood: "At night, downtown Los Angeles is dead and Beverly Hills...
Spielberg and flunky Chris Columbus--who also wrote Gremlins and Goonies (see accompanying story)--have not expanded the modest vision of past Holmes films and the original Doyle stories to fill the epic scope required for Spielberg mega-effects. They have stomped all over the original, creating not a Holmes...
BERGER CLEARLY ADMIRES the resource restorers he writes about, and the admiration is merited. These people have struggled long and hard and have rejuvenated ecosystems to show for their efforts. Yet the most noticable weakness in his accounts is a tendency to portray his subjects with overly lavish admiration. His...
"It's an extraordinarily boring job but you can get your work done. It's not a great strain. They pay you quite well to do basically nothing," Gelber says.