Word: indistinctness
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...three years ago in the Nielsens top five as These Friends of Mine, the sitcom has since stumbled through a number of cast, staff and time-slot changes, never quite jelling creatively, even by DeGeneres' estimation, and settling into the ratings' upper midrange. A major problem has been the indistinct character of Ellen Morgan, who seems to drift wackily through each show without ever offering much in the way of believable motivation, even in the elastic sense that usually applies to sitcoms. For a while she owned a bookstore, but the profession seemed more an arbitrary choice to inject "workplace...
...Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear, and no one will ever know what happened"; and his friend's indistinct last words as officers shoved Biko and Jones into separate cars, something like, "I'll be seeing...
...goes. The best and most vivid part of the book is its 75-page-long beginning, which sets up an ultimately flaccid, indistinct narrative. Simpson can be a strong, sinewy writer, and it may be that this novel, her third, is simply a misstep. Perhaps she has gone to the well once too often: A Regular Guy has the same theme as much of her earlier work--a child searching for a lost father--and it lacks the energy and rude gusto of Anywhere but Here. As for Owens, he loses his company, but in the end he is doing...
...line between a programming genius and someone headed out the door for a station manager's job in Reno is, of course, notoriously indistinct. And Littlefield has had his share of bad ideas (remember Madman of the People?). Kevin Bright, an executive producer of Friends, recalls that Littlefield early on thought the series needed an older regular to counterbalance the twentysomething stars. The producers disagreed. "Another network executive might have said, 'No! I want this older character.' But Warren trusted our instincts and went with...
...When asked to identify a "crew," 73 percent of the 1989 Head's spectators pointed towards Ol' Man Charles River. 12 percent pointed to their ROTC hairdos. 8 percent mumbled indistinct Motley Crue lyrics. The rest belched or passed...