Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ultimately, it's the personal ties that distinguish this shop from others. No generic have-a-nice-day's here. Catie Zedros, Steven's hyperkinetic mother, paused for a moment to reflect on her family's special relationship with the Harvard student body. "When they come in over and over for a long time, you can't help but get to know them. A lot of them end up calling me `mom,"' she said, laughing. "But that's what's really rewarding. We help them, and they help us. We'll have someone call from the Yard one minute before...
...DOES A SINGER AS TALented as Mariah Carey continue to limit herself to churning out generic pop songs? Her self-titled debut displayed great promise, showcasing her gospel energy and vocal range on such hit songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. But Carey's third full album, Music Box, seems perfunctory and almost passionless . . . and that raises a lot of other questions...
This situation and this relationship are both rooted in traditional romantic comedy, and it would have been interesting (to say the least) if Singleton could have imposed its generic conventions on this unlikely milieu. But that's beyond him. He doesn't offer any scene that convincingly suggests the kind of authentic mutual attraction that might overcome the couple's superficial differences. He doesn't know how to coax a performance out of Jackson, who relates to the camera lens as if it were a mirror. He never finds a way either to put an interesting spin on the incidents...
...There hasn't been the space yet for us to make real changes," says Nona D. Strauss, co-chair of the applied and physical sciences joint council and director of the Science Center. "We try to find generic issues that we really can affect, rather then policy issues that will be decided in another forum...
Although Blessing's play was commissioned by the Bergalis family, it fully explores this conflict. It also engages the literary question of how to tell a story, which means pondering what the story really is. One character is Kimberly, beguilingly played by Robin Morse. Another is a generic gay man (Richard Bekins), one of thousands whose death attracted far less attention than the five traceable to health-care errors, all by the same dentist. In a pivotal outburst, the third character (Jon DeVries), representing the playwright, recalls his brother's death in an auto accident before seat belts were standard...