Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices on the dinner menu are outrageously hiked from lunch. It does, however, contain an assortment of fish dishes. The salmon ($4.75) was bony and overcooked. Although delicately herbed, the sauce was runny and insipid. The Soft Shell Crabs ($4.95) came swimming in butter. What should have been the crispy claws and backs of these unusual creatures were soggy...
...warrior's perception of reality reduces any scene to its proper dimensions. When the silk merchant makes an attempt to woo him through the use of dancing girls, the camera focuses on the dancers' insipid expressions and stylized foot motions while the sound track conveys their uninspired attempts at music-making. Then, there is a close-up of the samurai's face stamped with a look of such marvelous scorn that the dancers become a spectacle of banality...
...always succeed completely, but the openness, eloquence, and powerful directness of his desperate loneliness make James Taylor's moanings seem sadly trivial. Several times, Wainwright's attempts to reduce emotions to the briefest, most forceful, and most blatant lyrical statements sound dangerously close to the slogans on insipid posters in the Coop. When his attempts bear fruit, they are absolutely searing...
...Economically equipped with half-a-dozen paints, water and one brush, he had had a gorgeous time. At 78, he had laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects of "the adventure of living" absorb Mr. Feild, and he has no hesitation to speak a piece of his mind...
...Olga he picked exactly the wrong wife. She was pretty, inflexibly respectable and snobbish; she tried hard to reform Picasso's bohemian habits. His portraits of Olga when they were in love (32) are among the few completely insipid Picassos that exist. As the marriage disintegrated, the great figure paintings and still lifes (31, 36, 37) began alternating with a sequence of brutally distorted female heads. Woman's Head and Self-Portrait, 1929 (38) is nothing less than a pictorial act of revenge: the savage, angular profile of Olga, with its chisel teeth and spike tongue about...