Word: insipid
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...quoted Fidel Castro's remark on the presidential candidates: "Never, in times so complex and chaotic as these, have we faced two contenders who are so boring and insipid" [VERBATIM, Aug. 21]. Methinks if George W. Bush is elected, Cuba's Mr. Big Man may be eating his words. Then it will be adios, Fidel! VEE LAPHAM Schaumburg...
...Myself and Irene": One of the less brutal reviews of the Farrelly brothers' most recent adventure pointed out that viewers are less likely to be insulted by the movie's vulgarity than by its insipid and totally boring plot. Need I say more...
Once upon a time in March, when the NASDAQ hit its record high of 5048 points, tech investors were seen all over Wall Street's bars and restaurants, hoisting microbrews and declaring they couldn't be bothered with the insipid Fed-watching that had gripped their Old Economy brethren ever since "irrational exuberance." We're betting on the future, they said, and the future is always bright for geeks. Now, two months and a staggering 37 percent later, NASDAQ is the wisp in the Fed's wind. Tuesday, week-old worries about another interest rate raise in the wake...
...weekly newsmagazine and watch an evening news program and thereby receive separate, incisive and differing reports on topical subjects. Shortly, you will read TIME, watch CNN and be able to browse AOL's sites. But you will undoubtedly get the feeling you are digesting the same rehashed, bland and insipid "content." The rush to fill Internet bandwidth has dumbed down our media fare. The "new media" have made everything equal to one (and the same). How boring! FRANK KUBICEK New York City...
...greeted by the Latzanakises' warm smiles as they bought their daily cup of coffee. But more than the actual businesses themselves, the gradual decline of the Square's quirkiness is the biggest loss. Even if the red brick facades stay the same, the replacement of two Square landmarks by insipid chain stores underscores the depressing shift towards homogeneity that grips our national psyche. Admittedly, it is comforting to be able to order your favorite Frappuccino or buy that Gap shirt that everyone in your blocking group owns in any corner of the country, but is it worth losing the little...