Word: trite
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Blackstreet led the original Rugrats movie soundtrack with the childish sound effects and almost mechanical sound of their hit song "Take Me There." In this sequel soundtrack, the lead star is T-Boz Watkins (the "T" of TLC fame) and the hit song is "My Getaway." The track's trite percussion rhythms mean it won't be nominated for a Grammy anytime soon, but it does harness the cutesy spirit of the Rugrats. And while the pre-pubescent voice of Aaron Carter would be insufferable elsewhere, it fits perfectly on this soundtrack. The catchy rhythm of "Life is a Party...
Nakamura's work, especially her skirts of square fabric stuck on wall, seems like Surrealism gone feminist-psycho mixed with attempts at cleverness gone sickeningly trite. She draws on the materials of appearance, like bas-relief shirt pockets and women's eyelashes, and claims that this is an "embodiment for emotion" using the things that mask our emotions, yet it just doesn't work. The felt shirt pockets put on a shelf merely recall the millions of other found and seemingly found objects that already call museums home...
...looming, book-shaped building to house the offices of Widener? Please. How trite. In the past 50 years of lackluster "architect collecting," one would have hoped that Harvard had learned a lesson or two about scale, materiality and context in architecture and urban planning. After all, how many Science Centers, William James Halls, Holyoke Centers, Peabody Terraces, Leverett Towers, and Mather Houses does it take to drive these points home? At the end of the day, it just doesn't matter how many prizes an architect has won; when it comes to "architect collecting," it's the ordinary folks...
...this is no trite tale of generational change in which yesterday's malcontents become today's mandarins. Many of those at the pinnacle of the World Bank share the demonstrators' concerns that globalization has brought few dividends to the world's poor, and that the burden of debt owed by developing countries to the G7 industrialized nations threatens to keep them permanently impoverished. But while the protesters are calling for the IMF and World Bank to be disbanded, representatives of the developing world who are forced to deal every day with the reality of a global financial system in which...
...recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed in her studies of Chinese law. The Globe article reported that Bill was permanently living in the city, dating a celebrity columnist from the trite magazine In Style and considering a career in acting...