Word: genericism
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...actors still manage to exude strong, individualized stage presence. Liberated from scripted characters, it seems as though they are actually playing exaggerated versions of themselves. Each actor portrays a variety of characters during the course of the show, with some assuming names while others remain generic (i.e. housewife). Because characters come and go within the space of one song, individuality is marked not by any abiding and consistent creation of scripted identity but rather by the actors’ own idiosyncratic performance styles...
...song structures and hipster vocals fail to move anywhere. The song “X-Polynation” shows the potential to be a people-mover with its initial driving beat and idiosyncratically spastic flute, but crashes down as the band takes a trip to New York with their generic imitation-Rapture-or-other-New-York-Hipster-Band vocals; the mediocre rock tune, “Collect the Diamonds” is annoying way past the initial irritating line in which a DC band sings about people “standing in a queue...
While several students caught on to Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) switch to generic cereals this year, few seem to have followed the trail of crumbs in the wake of another carb swap...
Just before the school year started, HUDS signed a contract with a new provider for breads and bagels, and while the breads remain generic, the bagels now bear a brand name: Finagle...
...illustrate how out of touch the voters in these two polls are, let’s surf on over to I-AA.org, a site which has compiled a rating formula know as the Gridiron Power Index (GPI). The GPI is the cheap, generic knockoff of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) formula, as it uses the rankings from eight computers and three human polls—the two mentioned above and the one from AnyGivenSaturday.com, which currently has Harvard sitting 24th...