Word: genericizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Generic. Upperclassmen are anxious to waste a little time before class, and first-years dawdle in droves after a meal at Annenberg. Plagued by compulsive email checkers who read their mail every 20 minutes to avoid doing anything...
...ripe hunting ground for G.O.P. candidates. The party holding the White House almost always gets trounced in midterm elections, on account of a thinning agenda and a sense that the best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing them. We have the papers; we're reviewing them.' That...
Lots of synthetic drugs, for one. (Senior Tutors, that is what we semi-humorous people call a "joke." ) Actually, the key is to master the art of vicarious drunkenness. Step one: when I get to any generic Harvard party, my first stop is the drink table. I pour myself a rum and Coke minus the rum and walk around confidently sipping my beverage. Security comes in knowing that as long as I'm drinking something, I'm invisible among the thronging partygoers. Baaaaaah...
Although several of the songs on Pilgrim deal with the death of Clapton's four-year-old son Conor in 1991, the impersonal, generic pop gloss of this album prevents us from really communing with his pain. The confessional My Father's Eyes, the CD's opening number, is so polished and plodding it never comes close to evoking emotion in the listener--unless you consider boredom an emotion. As for the next cut, River of Tears, it has a central metaphorical construction so lazy that one half expects the next track to be titled Needle in a Haystack. Simple...
...essence, the Tower on Newbury Street is identical to every other Tower in the United States. But beneath its generic surface, Tower is possibly the ideal place to expand one's music collection locally, while shopping for gifts ranging from the unusual to the obscene...