Word: genericism
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...orchestra imitates marching bands through familiar-sounding (yet completely original) tunes that Adams has concocted. The remaining two movements, “The Lake” and “The Mountain,” are more conventional musical paintings of landscape. The music here is generic and forgettable. In fact, in “The Mountain,” with its repetitive ostinatos and zigzagging string lines occasionally punctuated with brass and bells, sounds awfully like a recycling of Adams’ earlier post-minimalist works like “Harmonielehre” and “Na?...
...with their ceremonial scimitars. Our point is, there is too much injustice in your everyday life to be bothered by things like global warming. How can we be thinking about our children’s lives when, right now, as we write this, Harvard dining halls are stocked with generic breakfast cereal...
...once played Mark in “Rent,” which he and the creative talent make a poor effort to emulate here: Rob is whiny and angsty and lives in Brooklyn; he might as well have AIDS. Chase’s voice and stage presence is entirely generic, but the writers render him impotent by lobbing off Rob’s most important lines. Never once does Rob utter the underlying philosophy of Hornby’s work: “Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened...
Patricia Cornwell published a disappointing novella, “At Risk,” that centered on caricatures instead of forensic investigations into gruesome murders. James Patterson, who seems to let Andrew Gross handle the writing duties these days, issued another generic thriller, “Judge & Jury.” Patterson, following in Tom Clancy’s footsteps, threatens to become the Franklin W. Dixon or Gertrude Chandler Warner of this generation. A spate of chick-lit also hit the market and fizzled, lacking creativity or, at the bare minimum, controversy...
...remembers - then had therapy. Last he remembers, he was on the table. He doesn't remember his therapist leaving. It's all "very vague," he says. Owens' longtime spokeswoman, Kim Etheredge, was concerned enough to call the paramedics. All she knew was that Owens' bottle of pain pills - reportedly generic vicodin - was empty; he says he had sorted out the pills and put the extra in a drawer...