Word: tepidity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mind memories of Michael Moore at his best. Ultimately, “Slacker Uprising” represents the culmination of a failed project. The film is a re-editing of “Captain Mike Across America,” a documentary that Moore premiered in 2007 to tepid reviews. Despite Moore’s efforts to reinvent this film, “Slacker Uprising” suffers from excessive self-indulgence. If Moore wants to return to his past excellence, he must do more than re-edit—instead, he must go back to the drawing board...
...second album as his highly politicized alter-ego. However, Morello, who was a Gov concentrator during his time at Harvard, apparently didn’t take any electives in poetry. His heart may be in the right place, but that’s hard to discern as this tepid album plays...
...presidential nominees have cultivated reputations as change agents and truth tellers, but their tepid, hedged support for the emergency package didn't look reassuring either. Obama has taken a cautious and detached approach, articulating principles--transparency, oversight, limits on golden parachutes, protections for taxpayers and homeowners--but mostly staying out of the way. He didn't really act like a leader, but he doesn't hold a leadership position, and so far voters seem to appreciate his cool response. While Washington Mutual and Wachovia were disappearing and investment banks were going extinct overnight, Obama was pulling ahead in the polls...
...adaptation of the author’s first novel, 1999’s “Fight Club” must take note: “Choke” lacks the cinematic intensity, bombastic performances, and thematic density of that film. With its half-baked plotlines and tepid, almost inconsequential digressions into subplots, “Choke” raises the question of whether the novel even merited movie treatment. The film’s unusual twist does little more than further muddle the message of what was already a quiet flop.Victor’s search for familial identity...
With a crimson-colored harvest moon rising behind the Eliot Bell Tower Friday night, Harvard football rallied with three fourth quarter touchdowns to trump Holy Cross, 25-24, in front of 20,462 fans at Harvard Stadium. Despite tepid offense to start the Crimson’s second annual night game, the defense kept the squad poised for the fourth quarter comeback. “Our defensive coordinator, Coach Doherty, he challenged us a lot in practice, and the coaching staff did a great job of putting us in the right position,” said Harvard captain and defensive...