Word: trite
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...creative minds behind the charmingly idiosyncratic S&M romantic comedy “Secretary”—have taken the idea to new heights with “Fur,” reaching for margins so extreme as to be unpalatable and a center so trite as to be meaningless. The film begins in media res, with legendary photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) donning a coat of hair that makes her look like some sort of vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving...
...long as we’re tossing out trite clichés, remember this one: There’s nothing new under the sun. Neither this cartoon theme, nor this problem is original to your cartoonist...
...subtle lyrics reminiscent of protest songs from the '60s. Their newest album, entitled Oye, has an anthem called, literally, Protest Song (Canci?n Protesta in the original Spanish). Other lyrics tend towards love and karma and the cosmos. It sounds like it could be the worst combination of the politically trite with the New Age - but it's not. The Aterciopelados have been the critical darling of the rock en espa?ol scene for good reason. And their work simply gets better with every passing album...
...whole, the album blends R&B melodies, hip-hop beats, and dance music into a fairly novel sound for the hip-hop genre. It is both a refreshing break from familiar beats and trite expressions and it is easy to listen to continuously because the songs follow a natural progression...
...that black actors, even rappers like Ice Cube, are breaking out of the “black film” category more frequently. Freed from the responsibility to single-handedly represent their race, black entertainers are free to fill roles of their choosing, no matter how innovative or trite they may be.Hating the movies may have been cool in the ’90s, but it’s significant that “Hollywood Divorce” is on the soundtrack of a Universal Studios creation. At this point, rappers like Outkast have assimilated into the mainstream film world...