Word: insipid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...childish come together. Is it any surprise then that it led to an infantile apocalypse, one part applesauce, one part phenobarbital? Look at the Heaven's Gate Website. Even as it warns about the end of the world, you find a drawing of a space creature imagined through insipid pop dust-jacket conventions: aerodynamic cranium, big doe eyes, beatific smile. We have seen the Beast of the Apocalypse. It's Bambi in a tunic...
...park, Roger and Pongo fall in love with Anita (Joely Richardson) and Perdita. They hold a double wedding and soon Perdita gives birth to 15 Dalmatian puppies. Daniels and Richardson play these potentially corny scenes with deadpan sincerity, making the parallels between canine and human love amusing rather than insipid. The always-reliable and lovable Joan Plowright also appears as the couple's nanny...
...wasting a lot of time tonight," said council President Robert M. Hyman '98, who characterized much of the debate as "a lot of insipid trash [coming] from both sides...
However, the next debate will be held in a "town hall" format, which decreases the possibility that the candidates will face tough questions or follow-up queries. The American people will probably have to choose the lesser of two evils after listening to a mind-numbing collection of insipid cliches and metaphors about bridges...
...Most of us do not have catastrophe-magnet assistants afflicted with a taste for awful vintage clothing like the architects on last year's unfunny Partners. And most of us do not seek inspiration by unfurling toilet paper all over our desks like the copywriters on last season's insipid ad-world sitcom Good Company...