Word: genericizing
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...always a cop), and more to do with the passing of time. Director Jon Avnet - who's done some decent work (The War) but was also responsible for this year's lamentable 88 Minutes, also starring Pacino - gives the new movie the grimy New York look and a generic intensity. Yet this is a film that missed its moment. Instead of the meeting of maestros at the top of their form, Righteous Kill has the feeling of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds facing off for the first time in an exhibition game. It's like Old Timers...
...there's also a disadvantage. The post-author approach gives The 39 Clues a synthetic, focus-grouped quality. It's nothing you can easily point to. It's just the absence of anything risky or anything strange. The Maze of Bones is scrupulously smooth and generic and meticulously calculated to appeal to everyone and offend no one. As the product of a corporate hivemind, it isn't stamped with the signature quirks of a single distinctive authorial sensibility. If it were a baby it wouldn't have a belly button...
...Clinton declared emphatically that she supports Obama, yet afterward many of the conventioneers were annoyed with how she said it. She didn't talk about about Obama's virtues. As several commentators put it, you could have replaced Obama's name in her speech with the name of any generic Democrat. All she seemed to care about was beating the Republicans...
...Center, through August 2008, the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Republican is lower than in any of the previous 15 years. The party is probably headed for another round of deep losses in the House and Senate. Asked recently by the Pew Center to choose between a generic Democrat and a generic Republican for Congress, registered voters under 30 gave the Democrats a 22-point lead...
...here, first, to support Barack Obama," he began - just so we were clear. And what followed suggested that he had taken all the medicine Hillary didn't. He paid tribute not just to the generic superiority of any Democrat compared to John McCain, but specific, personal tribute to Obama's power to inspire, his "intelligence and curiosity," his "humanity," his strength, his policies, his judgment and his priorities. He praised McCain's character as well - just to soften him up before bludgeoning Republicans for eight years of waste and greed and global incompetence...