Word: dullness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ghosn is running a little rough these days, it would be understandable. Seven years ago, Nissan was practically scrap metal: it had a fleet of dull cars, a tangled mess of suppliers, unproductive plants and $20 billion in debt. Ghosn was given the job of salvage man after his bosses at Renault bought a controlling stake. Born in Brazil and reared in Lebanon, Ghosn found his way to tire giant Michelin, where he developed his restructuring chops. But he had never run a car company, let alone a Japanese one, and almost everyone bet against him: a foreigner with...
...back-to-basics movement, another swing of the ideological pendulum rather than a fresh look at what it would take to get more kids to calculus by 12th grade. If the script follows that of the Reading Wars, what comes next will be dreary times-tables recitals in unison, dull new books that fail to inspire understanding, and drill, drill, drill, much like the unhappy scenes in many of today's "Reading First" classrooms. And that would be just another kind of math fiasco--of the red variety. Kids will learn their times tables for sure, but they'll also...
...Though not premiere vampire literature, “The Unofficial College Guide to Harvard with Murder” brings to life necessary collegial facts that are always presented in a dull, informational fashion. Amusing for any Harvard affiliate, past or present, this quirky book would also make a fantastic stocking stuffer for this year’s final crop of early admits...though they may all arrive on campus looking for the Porcellian...
...know for sure that one day Joel will go to jail for Benji’s hipster-killing spree, but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that, while a video consisting of the band performing against a white background is classic, it is also dull unless either the performance or the filming is particularly arresting. Having a lot of tattoos doesn’t cut it on the first count, any more than filming in black and white, occasional close-ups of faces or instruments, or occasionally switching to a black background count for the second. While...
Stephen King’s latest thriller has perhaps the most dreadfully dull cover ever conceived for a novel of his. The front is plain red with a shovel-shaped cutout on the front. Remove the dust jacket and you’ll find an overly colorful illustration of exotic, chaotically-growing flowers and weeds. According to the summary in the inner flap, the picture apparently depicts Boo’ya Moon, “a place that both terrified and healed him.” The “him” refers to the titular character?...