Word: blandness
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...part because the rest of the album fails to maintain the melodic quality of the first three songs. Power pop sans hooks is music that has entirely lost its raison d’être, and most of the album disappoints on this count, with generic, unmemorable riffs and bland choruses. But an even more egregious failure is the lyrical descent from enjoyable silliness to ponderous platitudes. Not only would such lines as “Without love you have nothing to shoot for” do James Blunt or Chris Martin proud, they are sung not as parody...
...shoulders of young Korean conductor Shi-Yeon Sung, who recently became one of two assistant conductors of the BSO. Save for an electrifying rendition of Bela Bartok’s suite from “The Miraculous Mandarin,” however, the BSO delivered an unpolished, bland, and thoroughly disappointing performance under Sung’s baton. In her subscription series debut with the BSO, Sung opened with Jean Sibelius’s “The Bard,” a little-known tone poem from the Finnish composer’s “dark period...
...Binghamton, N.Y., civic center, Jiverly Wong mailed a rambling, paranoid letter to a Syracuse TV station, bemoaning the loss of his job assembling vacuum cleaners and accusing the police of harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year-old had licenses for both of the handguns used in the attack...
...pulav, which my wife introduced in 1982 after returning from a trip to Iran." A waiter appears moments later with saffron golden rice and tender chunks of curried potatoes, fried cashews, wisps of crispy onions and ruby-red barberries imported from Tehran. "In Iran, the food is dry and bland by Indian standards so my wife experimented to find the right spices to liven up the dish," says Kohinoor. "But the exact recipe is a closely guarded family secret...
...Birthday Party” premiered in 1958 and is Pinter’s most critically acclaimed play. The story revolves around the terrorization of Stanley Webber, a failed pianist who lives in a rundown boarding house owned by Meg and Petey Boles, to all appearances a bland couple. The trio seem at first to get along splendidly, displaying a mix of familial and flirtatious affection. But these early moments are merely a foil to those that follow the arrival of the rest of the cast. The play shifts tone dramatically with the arrival of Lulu, Stanley’s younger...