Word: insipidness
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...Stiller's most brilliant creation may be Michael Pheret, a smarmy Hollywood agent who in a recurring bit is seen giving insipid career advice to real-life celebrities like Roseanne Arnold and the rap group Run-D.M.C. In his compulsive blabbering -- a cascade of fawning hyperbole and whatever-you-want- to-hear insincerity -- Stiller rises above simple media parody. He gets at the heart of the whole phony, pathetic show-business ethos...
...drives the etiolated spirit to renewal via satire. Satire's effectiveness is one nurtured in tiny Smoke-filled rooms, where combatants of wit can exchange furtive one-liners knowing that Big Brother has temporarily been shut out. Dilute the genre with television and viewing figures and you get an insipid attempt at such humor, because, hey kids, it's really not that controversial. You are not going to be spending a night in a urinous prison cell after visiting Catch a Rising Star. Such a pity...
...when student choice is forcibly with drawn, only insipid houses can result. Students with no choice of communities will form small cliques in their dormitories and have less stake in getting to know those with other interests...
...blame rests not on Ms. S.'s shoddy reporting, carelessness, bad writing, and total ineptitude in reviewing a complex play, but in your actually printing such a banal piece of garbage. Every detail is incorrect and misinformed, right down to the insipid photograph that you ran, miscaptioned "The Climax" when in fact it is a cast photograph bearing little relation to the performance and staged entirely by your staff photographer...
...good news is that at least some of this music is innovative, not just a kowtow to the blues progressions of 70s rock nor an insipid imitation of punk. If we are confronted with a smorgasbord of styles, it may be because Rock peaked in the seventies and frayed in the eighties in the face of gum-snapping pop mall music from hell. Rock is resurfacing in the 90s like a groundhog scared of its own shadow, and many musicians claim they'd rather be dead (or unsigned) than be imitators of their predecessors or of each other...