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...approach, a wonderful relationship can still develop. To start, Harvard could put back into use the many vacant commercial properties it owns in Allston and Brighton. We look at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, a jewel of a program already in Allston but cramped in the basement of a nondescript building, and see great potential for classes, artists’ studios, and retail space that could benefit everyone. Beyond that, planning for Harvard’s campus could take a new and fundamentally different approach that brings people together instead of pushing them away...
...cinematography helps to ground the film in the compellingly nondescript image of New Jersey suburbia, and gives us the documentary-like realism that made “Spellbound” so powerful. This realism is constantly in tension with the whimsical soundtrack by American musician Eef Barzelay that is classical, folksy, and disturbing at the same time...
...back corner of the UC’s Hilles office space is a nondescript shelf with a motley collection of binders...
...banality of the houses themselves. Gilded Age piles with mansard roofs or carpentered scrollwork were deeply out of fashion in the 1920s, when Hopper started seeking them out. In the same way, when he painted Manhattan, it wasn't the jazz-age skyscrapers he was drawn to. It was nondescript brownstones and offices, places like the one in Room in New York, where you could peek through the windows and glimpse anonymous people flourishing their enigmas...
...lead vocals back and forth, but it’s difficult to notice the switch. Both have the exact amount of raspiness and vowel-slurring expected of a rock singer; instead of being an asset, this just compounds their lack of character. Their songs tend to repeat the same nondescript lyrics as many times as possible, like “Somebody / Somebody / Somebody’s gonna hurt somebody” on “Berlin.” Listening to “Baby 81” becomes a search for something different, and the band does oblige with...