Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must transcend the one-dimensional analysis of black culture which neglects its existential constituent and the insipid exaltation of black culture which ignores its functional component. This transcendence is accomplished by recognizing the existential need to preserve black cultural uniqueness ant the functional demand of achievement-orientedness within the black cultural perimeters--such is the golden mean to which black culture must adhere if it is to meet the challenges of post-industrial society...
Blazing Saddles is full of inspired concepts, but Brook's insipid direction dilutes their strength. His acting is no better: Instead of comedic precision or subtlety, Brooks offers the sort of mugging and clowning found in bad summer camp skits...
...necessary depth to the production, especially in the prologue which demands equal skill in acting and singing. Even more important, the orchestra worked at a consistently intense level of excellence, playing best in the most dangerous, exposed passages. Even the costumes add to the total effect--the beautiful but insipid drapery of Ariadne and her nymphs counterpoints the geometric design of the harlequins' garb...
With a pedigree like this, it takes a lot of chutzpah to call this Jazz-Rock. But it is: Rather than laying insipid horn charts over standard rock and giving it the name, rock's emphasis on rhythm has been injected into jazz. Enter Miles. And the rest, as they say, is history. The six ensembles that have resulted from Miles's own experiments form a mini-spectrum making up one end of a larger spectrum of all jazz. At the rock end of the small one lies The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Zawinul's Weather Report, from what little...
...name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well. "We established the principle that journalists have a right to criticize restaurants by name just as movie...