Word: genericizing
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...there was something less driven about her latest release, something that sounded less driven and more, well, produced. Calculated. Chapman's latest release sounds like her first one, put through a blender to average the overall "Chapman sound," and then poured into a CD mold. The problem is, generic Tracy isn't Tracy at all. One of the things that made her earlier albums so compelling was their inconsistencies, the exquisitely different points they were able to access, like so many different facets on a diamond pressurized into shape by the urgency of honest anger and desperation...
...sincere man who, try as he might, could not feign sincerity. We took pity on him and gave him easygoing, helpful answers to his fairly predictable questions ("Do you all understand what 'presumption of innocence' means?" and so on). It was actually fortunate that we got our fill of "generic" courtroom questions from him because we would get no such things from the defense attorney...
...pledged a whopping $250,000 of his own funds to the GOP for ads. The typical contribution from Congress members is about $5,000. While not all of the cash can be used for ads directly endorsing Dole, the Republican National Committee is allowed to spend unlimited amounts on generic "issue ads" designed to achieve the same end: support for Dole. Newt's good deed left but a small dent in his own coffers, still bulging with some $1.5 million for his own campaign. On Wednesday, he urged other GOP congressional candidates with fat war chests to cough...
Hootie and the Blowfish, a new Top 40 feel-good "rock" band that oozes generic lyrics like "I always want to be with you" to monotone riffs lasting no longer than two minutes, merits a full-page photograph among the 48 glossy leaves of Time Warner's 1995 Annual Report. Hootie and his fish, a property of Time Warner's Atlantic Records label, created America's top-selling album for the previous year, gaining the obvious right to be heralded among the entertainment giant's other financial achievements, which together totaled over $3.3 billion in earnings...
...continuing poll of registered voters, only 15% call themselves Perot supporters, down from 20% five months ago. He is losing support fastest among the affluent and educated, who also tend to vote the most. Independent voters, says a poll by the Pew Research Center, would now prefer a generic third-party candidate to the razor-tongue billionaire...