Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I was stuck on such pedestrian topics as the effort to bring back flammable pajamas for children (there's another concept), my brethren in the media turned in a performance that has made us more unpopular with the American public than Linda Tripp. Nice going, team...
Likewise, it would be all too pedestrian to have mailboxes cluttering the ostentatious entrance to the building. Without such mailboxes, the post office is under no obligation to sort the mail. Each day, the mail for ninety families arrives to be sorted and delivered by the doormen on duty, cluttering the lobby while it is sorted and tying up the elevators while it is delivered...
...Down" is the album's second single, but its obvious take on Bowie's cabaret-inflected songs on (you guessed it) Hunky Dory fails because it's precisely that--too obvious. Not even Sheryl Crow playing accordion saves the skittering strings and shuffling snare from being unengaging and pedestrian. The last two tracks, "Mockingbird Girl" and "Opposite Octave Reaction," are fuzzed-out noise rockers--cleverly produced, but utterly uncompelling...
Terence is also quick to point out that their lighthearted diversions are really nothing compared to what goes on elsewhere in the Yard. Things are easier so see, because windows are at pedestrian level, and the dorms are very close together. Terence mentions a neighbor who has a room facing Thayer and who swears that "there's this one couple who completely show off." He agrees, too, that there are some things that you just don't watch. "We were talking about this [particular room across the way], and we looked out the window, and in a room right next...
Diego draws in a crowd with a melange of calypso and oldies favorites outside Bertucci's, in the heart of Brattle Square. Like a Siren, he lures even the most reluctant pedestrian into a seat on the granite bench in front of him and offers them ready lapse into a summer pace of life...