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Shea opens a nondescript box on top of another filing cabinet...
Academy Award-winner Marvin Hamlisch has assembled a score of nondescript pastiche; he imitates the various types of music appropriate to the 1950s setting without bringing any soul to them. A man whose best work was relatively schmaltzy and oft remembered more for the lyrics written by others, Hamlisch just seems ill-suited to the project. A better choice for producing jazzy period music with dark undertones might have been the young composer Jason Robert Brown...
...dumb (The Simpsons), even abusive (Titus). On My Wife and Bernie Mac, black dads don Ward Cleaver's authority-figure sweater. Wayans' grouchy suburban dad Michael Kyle is firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title, but its very blandness makes TV's skittishness about black comedy seem all the sillier...
...gunfire is deafening as Ryan Peake, 20, and two of his high school friends blast away at a cadre of terrorists. It's 6:30 p.m. in the PC caf?, part of a nondescript strip mall in the Orange County, Calif. suburb of Garden Grove, and there are about twenty customers inside playing the online game Counterstrike against kids in the other twenty cybercafes within a four-mile radius. In the game, users play either terrorists or counterterrorists locked in a violent faceoff. Although Peake dislikes the kids on the terrorist side who give themselves handles like Osama's Mama...
People like Morrow confuse evil with charismatic bullying. Morrow writes of the terrifying ordinariness of bin Laden, Adolf Eichmann and other perpetrators of organized murder. He says we are often amazed by the nondescript appearance of the evildoers. What do we expect? Horns? A tail? The facts are that Eichmann, bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin and all the other petty yet charismatic men of history who committed such heinous acts had three things in common: they were fanatics; they organized others to do their dirty work; and, most crucial, they were not supernormal madmen--not Satan, not some abstract species...