Word: generics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term] `queerness' is pragmatically generic, but does not mean that there is a common denominator," Zita said...
...legacy of communism will be more durable and hindering than we thought before," Lewandowski said in an interview with The Crimson. "There is a generic memory of industrial culture from before the war. Our generation is anxious to rebuild...
...charges are justified. In a way, Thernstrom exploits the very person she sets out to elegize. She exploits Lee as a symbol of innocence, a generic representation of society's victimization of and violence against women. But as Thernstrom writes, "Elegies to reality are hard to write...
...despite these gimmicks and gewgaws, the new season seems dismayingly old hat. It's not just the proliferation of overworked characters and formulas: idealistic lawyers, precocious five-year-olds and family shows with interchangeably generic titles (The Family Man, Married People and Sons and Daughters -- try telling them apart). It is also the hollowness of the supposedly innovative stuff. The game this season is to grab the audience's attention, to make shows stand out from the crowd in some way. But the swatches of fuchsia and bright orange can't disguise the dingy old furniture underneath...
Though Ross's production occasionally falls into the generic failing of hollow dialogue and stale blocking, he does an impressive job with the cast. Lead Hopkins makes a strong showing. His performance is consistently focused, and though he perhaps lacks the haggard air the playwright intended for the character, he replaces it with a flawless befuddlement...