Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joshua Judges Ruth, the weirdness is harder to laugh off. The lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...
...Harvard has already begun to confront those issues," Turner says. "Harvard has recognized its problems, major difficulties generic to great research institutions...
...retail segment that has been growing about 10% annually. It will take world-class contenders like these to unseat the defending champion, Quaker Oats Co.'s Gatorade, which accounts for some 90% of nationwide sales. , Like Kleenex in the tissue market and Xerox among copiers, Gatorade has become the generic word for sports drinks...
...exquisite ensemble number Sunday Morning, a lilting series of one- and two-line vignettes recalls the everyday normality that the contestants once enjoyed and that the Depression destroyed. But while Nagle Jackson's book is shrewdly and tightly constructed, his lyrics frequently sound clankingly obvious and unrevealingly generic ("We found the Depression depressing, and so we just went on dancing...
...writer remembers the model search posters well. There was a "tall, slim, decidedly caucasian-looking female," which she believed typified "western standards of beauty." The logo was a simple sketch of a generic women in a dress. She didn't even have distinct facial features, which just goes to show what you see when you are so obviously looking for something more...