Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bands, but more notably, there are new vocalists. Before, G. Love recorded exclusively with the Special Sauce--drummer Jeff Clemens and bassist Jimmy Prescott but on this album, the All Fellas Band has a large presence as well. G. Love's collaborations with the latter band, marked by the insipid rapping of vocalists Katman and Smiles, are the least successful performances on the album. Irrelevant lyrics make things worse: the content of songs such as "Lay Down The Law" and "1-76" (which refer to a personal acquaintance and G. Love's hometown Philadelphia, respectively) will mean nothing to most...
...shows are an eclectic if often insipid mix of music videos, infomercials and reruns of sitcoms such as Sanford and Son, along with talk and news shows produced in-house. But the programming comes dirt cheap. Profit margins currently run in the 50% range, in contrast to about 35% for many cable companies. The network already reaches 98% of all black cable homes, so future growth will have to come from new ventures. For example, the BET on Jazz cable channel, which features live performances, has more than 2 million domestic and 300,000 foreign subscribers...
...complex, horizontally integrated empire of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia is based on an almost insipid ethos: make life nicer and prettier. But implementation is not that simple. She says, "It took 100 years for someone to tell ordinary people in a doable manner not how to make an Escoffier or 100 amazing recipes that you will never do on a daily basis." Instead Stewart focuses on simple perfection. "I knew that the how-to would be my niche," she says. Adds her friend, dealmaker Ronald Perelman, the Revlon mogul: "I put her right up there as one of the most...
...this Mariah Carey anyway? After seven years, seven albums and 12 number one singles, she has yet to carve out any specific identity or consistent persona. Her detractors say she is always the same insipid thrush. Her fans proclaim the virtues of "her voice" or "her songs," but rarely champion her. Even her critical reception has veered wildly between casual enthusiasm (1995's multi-Grammy-nominated Daydream) to outright damnation (1991's Emotions is consistently named her worst effort...
...remain for the most part one-dimensional; the most interesting ones simply sink out of sight, into oblivion or irrelevance. The love story never really works; even the early scenes between Ravenal and Magnolia have an unavoidably mechanical feel, and the romantic duet that concludes Act One is pretty insipid stuff next to "West Side Story" or even "The Sound of Music...