Word: genericism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fierce battle for what will soon be a $1 billion-a-year market for drugs treating the problem. New prescriptions for ADHD treatments have gone up more than 38% over the past five years, with 20 million prescriptions written in the past year. No longer do Ritalin and its generic knockoffs rule. Now there are more than half a dozen treatments, some of which last a whole school day, sparing kids the stigma of lining up at the nurse's office...
...sharp and graphic as the differences over the Middle East may be, they're hardly the only show in town. Everyone from Latinos to Gypsies is pressing their own legitimate grievances, and even the generic anti-globalization protestors are showing up. Screaming ironies abound: Here you'll find Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, author of a cynical pogrom to drive white farmers off the land, on "Landlessness as Racism...
...only makes sense that the songs these creatures hear in the background should be mutts genre-wise, open to all influences. If high schools no longer house crowds that wish to represent themselves with musical genres, why maintain any generic integrity...
...Charles is in town/ Let?s mess around till the midnight hour/ See what he?s puttin? down" -that prefigures no fewer than three Atlantic songs: Charles? own "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Mess Around" and Wilson Pickett?s "In the Midnight Hour." The song ends with generic barks ("Come on! Come on, child!") that are pretty much grunts with consonants. A listener needs no English to understand what Pleasants calls the message: a man?s desperate yearning in the tantalizingly remote face of God or Woman...
...distant descendant of Les MisErables?with Liujian as Jean Valjean, Richard as Javert, Jessica as the prostitute Fantine and Jessica's daughter as Cosette. What's missing here is any attempt at literacy; the script's garish dialogue seems less written than spray painted. Richard spouts a lot of generic tough-guy dialogue ("Bring him to me alive; I'll kill him myself,") while Liujian barely speaks at all ("I'm not your type?" Jessica poutily asks him, and our monastic hero replies, "I don't have type...