Word: genericism
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...light-rock outfit. It’s pretty and all, but it doesn’t seethe or sear as Cat Power’s finest work has in the past. But then the album drifts away again. “Where Is My Love” is particularly generic, with Norah-esque jazzy arrangements and mellow sentiments that are more likely to induce sleep than ruffle any feathers. “Islands” follows suit, with the lyrics smothered by the back-up band. A big part of the problem here stems from the album?...
...this band has already made several—had the disc’s filler been culled. While on balance the good outweighs the bad, it remains hard to sit through the clunkers, such as “To Be Myself Completely,” whose vague lyrics and generic melody drag down the last third of the album. This is most likely because it’s the album’s one song on which guitarist Stevie Jackson replaces Murdoch on lead vocals. Unfortunately, Jackson just isn’t a lead singer; where Murdoch is silky-smooth...
...Democratic House members. But the fact is that about two-thirds of Abramoff-related money went to Republicans, and that may have already begun to shift the political equation 10 months before the congressional election. In an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday, respondents said they favored a generic Democrat for Congress over a Republican by a lopsided...
...right, there aren’t any vending machines in the Science Center.Three: Exorcise the 802.11b demons. Prominent Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi called Sever Hall his “favorite building in America.” It shows “the validity of architecture as generic shelter rather than abstract-expressive sculpture,” Venturi wrote. To students inside Sever, however, it shows the pitfalls of delaying the outfit of a building constructed during the post-impressionistic era with information-age technology. There is no official wireless in many parts of Sever, but a faint, ghostlike...
...WRIST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN Tired of generic greetings, a Catholic couple in recent weeks sold some 25,000 "Just Say Merry Christmas" wristbands, at $2 each