| 单词 | generic |
| 例句 | The bedside lamps, bolted to the tables, were a dead giveaway, as were the long drapes made from the same fabric as the bedspread, and the generic watercolor prints on the walls. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, they called the city Rhakotis, which might refer to some preexisting Egyptian village on that location, or derive from the term ra-qed, the generic term for “building site.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They could even afford Coca-Cola instead of their customary generic pop, and brand-name Kraft macaroni and cheese; this was a source of distinct pride. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “IDA,” said the Dutchman at the meeting, “is going to do everything we can to lower prices, by exploring generic manufacturers.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z So Aru had thought it was just one of those generic warnings parents gave to kids, like Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll burn! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Millions of people today buy designer jeans for double the price of equally durable generic jeans—because the social cachet of the designer label counts for more than the extra cost. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “They’re kind of all the same. Same generic rooms. Same tile floors. Same sterile smell. I’ve been everywhere without actually seeing anything.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The forest to either side was a black void full of wild and ancient trees, nothing like the generic carbon-dioxide suckers that decorated the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a man’s tenor voice, a very pleasant, generic voice — the kind of voice that you heard in the background of luxury car commercials. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I used a generic photograph of q mallard for reference, but Uncle Phil doesn’t need to know that. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The only generic hospital garb sitting around are those embarrassing gowns that they put the patients in. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Why not live in a smaller, generic town house in a less expensive part of south San Jose that was twenty minutes farther from all my friends, my job, and my high school? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Two gallons of discount-store red punch and tiny paper cups are arranged in a lovely display next to the plate of generic black-and-white cookies. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The pieces in which Corelli developed this light-and- shade technique came to be known by the name of the larger group, concerto grosso, and subsequently the generic term ‘concerto’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The best breakdancers had their own signature styles, and my moves were still generic. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He doubted that she had ever written him anything at all, except for the generic Love, Kainene, on his birthday cards. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But her mother smoothly turned her attention to Omer, smiling that generic mother smile. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t expect Sam to always agree with me, but she didn’t even give me that generic I’m sorry that happened to you or I’m sorry you feel that way response. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Everything else—the piles of dirty laundry, the opened Doritos bags, the empty cans of generic soda pop, two ratty old chairs, and a moldering beanbag chair—was dispensable, an afterthought, props. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I will call people by different names or generic names because I don’t want you to find me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He knows that deshi, a generic word for “countryman,” means “Indian,” knows that his parents and all their friends always refer to India simply as desh. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of "littluns." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A DJ played some generic pop hit from four months ago. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what tribe my people came from, so it came out kinda generic.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was furnished in that generic way homes in furniture catalogs are. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z In elaboration, a single event is first described in a generic way and then in specific detail. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He wore the same generic blue work shirt that everyone in this building, this town, owned. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I sigh, giving her the brief, generic response. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The outside is cream and blue, and looks like a generic building. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z One of his first tasks was to convince the generic manufacturers that reduced second-line antibiotic prices could still result in significant revenues and profits. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What he called his wife, once; maybe still does, but really it’s a generic term. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There are seven different shades for white skin and one generic chocolate shade, but that is progress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It is a generic name for thousands of very different religions, cults and beliefs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Well, actually, it was exactly twenty-four times, but I felt justified in using the generic “few,” realizing that any number greater than “never” was as good as saying “twenty-four.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He no longer asked me generic questions about my evenings or my weekends. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be some generic babyish birthday celebration, with cupcakes for the whole class, like you did in elementary school. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I wore bleached blue jeans, a generic striped green-and-white shirt, and white sneakers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The headphones make me look like the generic alternative to an X-Wing fighter pilot, so I only wear them when I’m in my room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She didn’t even have the generic prettiness that made him inclined to believe the rumor that Nigerian politicians swapped mistresses. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It would be the same old cottage party; I would get a few generic gifts and then meet the Merritts in the therapy conference room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “It was sort of a generic word to describe someone who was slow,” I said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z His black helmet is completely opaque, so that all I see in it is the reflection of my generic avatar. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And if one were just too pathetic, forlorn, and unremembered, one could always scrounge up some decade-old, generic canned fruit cocktail from the depths of the basement pantry. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It helps they’ve given People an exclusive—a few generic quotes about how much Alex “cherishes” his friendship with Henry and their “shared life experience” as sons of world leaders. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Instead, she pictured some nameless, generic boy with floppy brown hair and a cute smile. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The doctor has a PhD in psychology from American University, which, to me, sounds a little too generic to be real. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Garret Charles actually gave us a generic monologue about the dust of California in the eighties. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “They just want to make a generic little girl. You know, one that will appeal to everyone.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. | 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close': ?Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? With Tom Hanks - Review 2011-12-22T19:40:23Z The earliest examples were the motorized, tabletop-scale pieces for which Duchamp invented the generic name: “mobiles.” The Biography of Alexander Calder, Part I 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The title essay meditates on her estrangement from her parents, while a piece on raising teenagers notes that adolescence “shares some of the generic qualities of divorce.” Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Sometimes generics are a money-saver, like prescriptions drugs, or over-the-counter medications, which are legally required to list their ingredients and adhere to the same standards as brand-name products. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z There’s another version no one’s ever heard that’s different verses, it’s more generic, but in that one we tried to be as honest as we could. 2010-01-29T04:18:00Z The 15 dancers were wonderful and individual in a sort of generic contemporary choreography that interspersed graceful, athletic leaps and lifts with moments of vernacular folk movement. “Firebird” at Wolf Trap proves long on statement, short on puppets 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z When grumblers grumble about today’s country music sounding too slick, too generic, too much like rock music that doesn’t actually rock, Aldean is the guy they’re thinking of. Jason Aldean at Nationals Park: Country star goes big but stays bland Tantalizing photos of missing paintings are on file at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, with titles as generic as “Mrs. Hudson” and “Mr. Swint.” A New Forum for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z He said that ambiguity in the law could allow for “large scale manufacturing under the guise of pharmacy compounding,” leading to a “shadow industry” of unapproved generic drugs. Compounding the meningitis outbreak 2012-10-11T22:21:00Z The sound of cascading rain segues into generic harp music. Review: ‘Umusuna: Memories Before History,’ a Butoh Premiere 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z There is a generic medical odor, chemicals and perhaps a whiff of blood, but nothing unique to the procedure. Perspective | Trying to disgust you is the only move the Republican convention’s antiabortion speakers have left 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z But these questions are undermined by the filmmakers’ reliance on generic thriller plot points and intrigues. ‘An Acceptable Loss’ Review: Conspiracy Drives a Nuclear Attack in a Rote Thriller 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The building itself is generic—until you step inside. Yayoi Kusama’s Obliteration Room Comes to New York 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z When I ask someone about her sex life and there is a pause or a generic “O.K.,” When the Cause of a Sexless Relationship Is — Surprise! — the Man 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Some critics have expressed Boston-fatigue, taking the accent as a generic signifier for white ethnicity and urban grit. The Blinding Cinematic Whiteness of “Black Mass” 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Abbott CEO Miles White will continue to lead the rest of the medical products company, which sells generics drugs, medical implants, diagnostic tests drugs and baby formula. Abbott to split into two companies 2011-10-19T12:41:00Z In “My Week With Marilyn,” this visual approach adds nothing and comes across as generic, as do as the jerky, handheld newsreel shots and popping photo bulbs. | 'My Week With Marilyn': ?My Week With Marilyn,? With Michelle Williams - Review 2011-11-22T17:12:23Z While a movie like "They Live" was about subtle imperialism and human beings were the evil overlords in "District 9" and "Starship Troopers," "Captive State" just makes the alien invaders into generic dystopian, two-dimensional baddies. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z True to generic form, “Unnatural Acts” ends with the expected roll call of its characters, who individually announce what happened to them in the succeeding years. | 'Unnatural Acts' : Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago 2011-06-24T02:01:10Z They used new instruments that were delivered to Albuquerque earlier in the day - even the media passes were generic. Sugarland tour resumes in NM after stage tragedy 2011-08-19T12:01:11Z Incoherence and generic skill overtake several works, but Mr. Martinez is better when he juggles more, not less. 2010-02-12T00:02:00Z FDA officials told the media that 217 generic drugs were potentially implicated, 140 of which were already approved for sale. FDA has history of hiding scientific misconduct 2013-04-19T17:40:00Z When the Rangers engage in “Transformers”-lite mayhem, an intriguing group portrait collapses into generic pyrotechnics, the dialogue running from “Bring it on!” to “Let’s do this!” Review: ‘Saban’s Power Rangers,’ With a Color-Coded Makeover 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The marriage of talking heads and troubling material from the archives is a familiar documentary format, and “Imagining the Indian” rarely breaks free from the generic quality of its structure. ‘Imagining the Indian’ Review: Fighting Offensive Imagery 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But it isn’t a generic cinematic war into which Coin sends her forces. “Mockingjay” Is a Paean to Movie Producers 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z “Western Motel” sits at the crux of this ambivalence, depicting a striking landscape, but as seen through the window of a generic indoor space built for refuge. What’s Better Than Seeing a Hopper Painting? Sleeping in One 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The generic film-and-sculpture installation “Coffin of a Servant’s Journey,” which combines the motifs of two well-known paintings by René Magritte, also seems beneath them. Art Review: Quay Brothers Retrospective at MoMA 2012-08-10T05:34:12Z Calhoun deftly moves 21 gifted performers around the stage while they belt or harmonize their way through Frank Wildhorn’s generic tunes. Cast makes the best of entertaining but generic tune of ‘Freedom’s Song’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Unlike the seasons past with their grim barren branches and "Handsmaid's Tale" cosplaying red trees, Trump's 2020 Christmas was as generic and unmemorable as this year has been unprecedented and difficult. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Most are no more captivating than the generic headshots and snapshots that can be found online. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The girl of the song was “meant to be a generic European girl,” he said, but was based partly on a Danish student, Anita Atke, whom he married in 1969 and later divorced. Peter Sarstedt, who sang the ’60s hit ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely),’ dies at 75 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z After more than a decade of hollow violence in which superheroes raze battlefields of generic CG goons, filmmakers are looking for a way to make their wounds hurt. Analysis | Why are there so many stories about parents killing kids? A new movie treats it as comedy. 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Thailand locations add spice but — like the plot twists and performances — fail to elevate the action beyond the generic, something seemingly not lost on Manit. Movie Review: ‘Bangkok Revenge,’ Directed by Jean-Marc Minéo 2012-09-14T23:32:06Z Taylor’s screenplay, and the two actors’ meticulous performances, frame them so precisely that they seem both generic and specific, a couple who straddle our nation’s generational and demographic divides. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z He does, but he also stoops to entertain, mostly abandoning his quirky little tableaus and painted cutout figures for a more generic approach to appropriation and art-about-art-about-black-popular-culture. Devin Troy Strother: ‘Space Jam’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Nine dancers come and go, exploring the space in slow-quick rhythms and a fairly generic contemporary ballet style. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Some of the Gardner studies are fairly generic: a detached limb, a female torso, bodies seen from behind. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Roman starts to give his generic “great, great man” speech, but then freezes and asks his family to bail him out. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z And much of the ornamentation, though lavish at times, seemed generic rather than specific to Monteverdi and his world. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z This somewhat generic quality, something of an anomaly in the NBA, means Collins offers up little baggage of his own. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z “Dark Angel” doesn’t offer much beyond garden-variety sociopathy and a generic weariness with the uselessness of men, the hard lot of Victorian women, and repeated rounds of childbirth and child burial. Review: Another ‘Downton Abbey’ Heroine Goes Dark 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “I think it’s political, in a way,” he said, as I took in another image—a generic screen-saver photo of a plump, dappled loon—trying to understand its appeal. The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The generic term for the fan culture organized around any given media franchise is a fandom. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z Gilroy won acclaim for the George Clooney drama Michael Clayton, but his last film was the more generic The Bourne Legacy, whose tone may be more in keeping with what Disney desire. Rogue One: does Disney want to cap the success of Star Wars spin-off? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s just that some of his boyish gestures, like the shoes, looked generic. Fashion Review: In Paris, Designers Hit the Redial Button 2010-09-30T23:10:00Z But in almost all of these cases, the scope of the alleged infringement is so minor, so generic, that it suggests that a basic element of composition is up for an ownership grab. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Clad in uniformly dun-colored garb, with little differentiation and definition among them, they also seem oddly generic, at least in appearance. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Enjoyment of each new film relies on knowledge of what came before, and the movies are being churned out in generic slabs because they need to slot together somewhere down the line. A John Wick 'expanded universe' – Hollywood's most idiotic idea yet? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Right now, Carrie is unemployed, $38,000 in debt, living with her sister, and unlikely to be parachuted into any generic Middle Eastern war zones. Homeland: Claire Danes sulks her way through more relentless catastrophising 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z They portray characters identified in the libretto — sung here in English — by generic titles like Wealthy Mommy and Workaholic. Operatic day at the beach evokes climate crisis 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It's become a standard, which is gratifying, but now people think it's generic. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “The East,” a bloated and thoroughly generic war movie by the Dutch filmmaker Jim Taihuttu, reckons with the Netherlands’ colonial legacy by spotlighting this overlooked moment in history. ‘The East’ Review: Imperialist Blues 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z We wanted to keep it as generic as possible so that it feels like Anywhere, U.S.A. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: A Thriller Director Who’s Afraid of Blood 2014-04-24T17:00:49Z Every character except for Venom/Brock is completely forgettable, the story is generic at best and quite messy at worst and the climactic battle scenes have foregone conclusions. Tom Hardy singlehandedly saves “Venom” from the trash pile of bad standalone superhero movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z So it's a pity there aren't more laughs in "All's Faire," a generic romantic comedy set among the show folk who put on a fair. 'All's Faire in Love': ye olde generic rom-com 2011-10-27T20:14:04Z A pleasant property, if a little generic inside, that will appeal to business travelers and those with children. Check In: Hotel Review: Drury Plaza Hotel Broadview in Wichita, Kan. 2013-08-20T18:00:12Z They have their own generic identies, their own distinct sets of conventions, and to smoosh them together would be to sacrifice some of our precious literary biodiversity. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z “It’s about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness.” DVD: John Ford?s ?Fort Apache? on Blu-ray From Warner Home Video 2012-03-25T01:23:02Z To them culture is merely generic content; it is a free service that is provided in the selling of customers to advertisers. Are books dead, and can authors survive? 2011-08-22T16:21:14Z Rather than pushing the lark idea to the limit Ms. Longstreth included visits to the cuckoo, falcon, owl, bat and a generic bird. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z Shooting from oblique angles in a boxy 4:3 aspect ratio, he deploys light, shadow and careful calibrations of focus to atmospheric effect, but these stylistic flourishes don’t communicate much beyond a generic art-house sensibility. ‘Jinpa’ Review: Murder and Mystery in Tibet 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z When it is combined with warnings like, “What you say on Facebook will be read by the college admissions board,” the cultural pressure to be generic becomes a matter of financial survival. Millennials! Let’s battle the boomers and Gen Xers — who had it easy compared to us 2014-01-19T16:30:00Z I think we all agree that it has a generic, middle-of-the-road quality. So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’ 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The training center also has its own repertory company, which is presenting a showcase of diverse works, with the generic title “Celebrate Dance.” Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s a completely generic name to younger women.” Will Tavi Gevinson outshine Jane Pratt's new site? 2011-03-23T21:24:00Z The simple “Hi” and its variations are the surest ways to end a conversation; they’re too generic and, lately, indistinguishable from the way bots initiate contact. Beyond Swipe Right: The Pickup Line Gets a Makeover 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z A barely discernible back story confirms that the resemblance to generic emo-painting is intentionally superficial. Dan Colen: ‘Miracle Paintings’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z I wanted this trip to not be a generic study abroad experience; I wanted to break away, completely on my own and not rely on anyone else. I’m not achieving my dreams! 2013-05-22T00:00:00Z As of now, the term is generic and can be used by any restaurant — except for in New Jersey, where Gregory's Restaurant & Bar, a Jersey Shore restaurant, owns the trademark in that state alone. The "Taco Tuesday" trademark battle comes to an end — except in New Jersey 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z On the one hand, Rent the Runway believes the future of shopping will be based on a noncommittal, virtual experience in which clothes pass through our lives like so many generic Zipcars. Rent the Runway means you can always wear something new. Should you have to? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Right from the opening credits, Howard signals this isn’t a generic studio comedy. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z The music, drawing from several African traditions, is generic and lulling, but the moments when the drumming grows intense or voices open up in simple harmonies are the best moments in the show. Dance Review: ‘The Legend of Yauna’ Puts Its Hero Through Trials 2014-02-23T23:04:25Z So I wrapped it in my own generic wrapping paper, then drove around and dropped it off at their office reception. Perspective | Miss Manners: Friend of a friend treated like a servant 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z But art is always a prime Gilded Age adornment — a generic sign of status and symbol of civilized discernment, even when unwarranted. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But even in this company, Mr. DiPietro’s play feels especially generic. Review: Renée Fleming Plays Against Type in ‘Living on Love’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Shows like Botched Up Bodies and Emergency Bikers and Police Interceptors and World's Busiest Border Crossing are on this week, and are all generic and tedious in equal measure. How to watch Channel 5 2013-07-24T14:49:35Z Reducing their risk of being seen as a West Wing imitation, each of the current political series adds some extra generic element to the legislative procedural. What Hillary Clinton could learn from TV's women in power 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Here, at least, was a vision of a body more complex than Mr. Michalek’s usual generic admiration and glacial swoops of gowns. Review: Bach’s Violin Solos, With Numbing Video Accompaniment 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Outfitted with the bright look and dopey hairdos of a generic teenage movie, “Premature” bops along with a wiseacre self-awareness and a nimble cast. ‘Premature,’ a Teenage Comedy, Mixes Sex and Sci-Fi 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But its insights rest in generic characters, who are simply too perfect as foils despite their ostensible flaws. Review: College Is Hard, but Less So in This Mopey Talkathon 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead they come across as walking and talking tropes, the kind that you would see in any story about boys becoming men in a generic prep school environment. "Tolkien" has a good idea at its center, but the execution is mixed 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Brake Assist: A generic term used for any system that makes brakes react in addition to or without the driver's input. Glossary: Automotive Terminology 2010-07-23T16:00:00Z The quest, which takes our heroes to the Sea of Monsters, aka The Bermuda Triangle, is generic in the extreme. ‘Sea of Monsters’: Promising start, good cast give movie lift 2013-08-07T18:18:40Z What they are envisioning as dramatic and innovative is coming across as generic and predictable. New band of the day (Lola's Bad No 1,492) 2013-04-15T15:42:04Z Atmosphere The Aviary is a comfortably modern if generic hotel lounge; the Office does a hushed impersonation of a movie millionaire’s library. Grant Achatz, Science-Minded Chef, Turns to Cloning 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The standard interpretation of Sturtevant's peculiar pieces is that they are generic critiques of originality — run-of-the-mill rehashes of the idea that there is nothing new under the sun. 'Sturtevant: Double Trouble' show at MOCA will dispel misinterpretations 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The stand-up segments are fairly generic comedy-club stuff: relationship jokes, technology jokes, jokes about growing up Roman Catholic. Review: ‘Neal Brennan 3 MICS’ Comes at Comedy From Several Directions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Opened last October, Sunset Alehouse looks like a generic sports bar — 10 flat screens and old posters of UW football to celebrate the Don James era, the glory years. Sunset Alehouse surprises with outstanding brews 2011-10-19T00:17:25Z With wooden performances, little rapport among cast members, stilted direction by Pieter Gaspersz and generic music, the film comes off like a Lifetime movie in the days of yore. 'After' could have used a lot more work before 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The comic is striking for its spare visual details, its generic, repetitious settings, and its constrained action. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z For much of that time, her home city struck her as “this generic town with a generic name, in the middle of the country, in the middle of nowhere,” she said. Springfield, Missouri, Is Their Muse 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Crumb’s work is more generic, getting most of its presence from her technical skill with watercolor and ink. Sophie Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A lot of us think of Connecticut’s capital as a generic New England way station between Boston and New York. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z The waiting room is super full today, and not much to look at — it’s a generic room filled with hard folding chairs, a couple of vending machines and a desk for security. Desert bloom: My wedding day, inside a California prison 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The title refers to the generic hotel she checks into on an Arizona business trip. Humana Festival, Turning 40, Looks at Mortality, Dystopia and Change 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The new theater, while generic from the street, has a restrained glamour in its public spaces, dominated by the glowing onyx exterior wall of the auditorium. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Iolanta’ at the New Mariinsky II in Russia 2013-05-05T19:20:13Z Again, I was forced to survive on the cheapest food, forced to stay awake all night fueled mostly by generic supermarket brand coffee. The working poor in the Hamptons: I cleaned a rich author's swimming pool while writing my own novel 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z From certain angles, “Surrounds” resembles a generic international biennial, but all works improve when given time and attention. MoMA’s Art Treasure, No Longer Buried 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z When visages are visible, they are generic, often bowler-hatted, and repeated as though stamped into being at a factory. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “Master” is a routine South Korean crime thriller whose bloat magnifies its generic qualities. Review: It’s Slick, but ‘Master’ Is No James Bond Movie 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z However, I noticed that this approach is fairly uncommon: Most people simply share a generic "Thanks, everyone, for all your wishes" post on their page shortly after the event. Perspective | Miss Manners: Replying to online birthday wishes 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions. Coldplay has lost its way 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z She points to political talk radio, where commentators typically use one extreme case to represent the generic face of an issue. We’re the face of food stamps 2012-10-16T22:30:00Z This is only heightened by the decision not to name her sources; they are identified here only in the most generic terms. Svetlana Alexievich's 'Zinky Boys' gives voice to the voiceless 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z About 90 percent of the contents of its New Jersey warehouse will be put up for auction, with the company saving generic props and costume items: weaponry, top hats and shoes, for example. ArtsBeat: New York City Opera to Hold Online Auction 2012-12-05T23:12:01Z According to its blurb on the Apple trailers site, the first Grave Encounters film was a "found-footage horror phenomenon", which is probably just a polite way of saying "generic Paranormal Activity rip-off". Grave Encounters 2: a sight for really sore eyes - trailer review 2012-10-10T16:29:45Z Even in a setting as generic as an American high school, the show has a sense of place. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Many of these, in their generic perfection, were obviously fake. Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z In winter, the top levels of this otherwise active parking garage are unused, generic and forgettable. Multi-Story Orchestra Turns a Parking Garage Into a Concert Hall 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The reason is that most US consumers view these names as generic — to them they just describe the features of the product, like whether it melts well or has a salty taste. An international battle over cheese has left European producers feeling bitter 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Munoz didn’t offer a way to contact him directly in his newspaper ads, instead pointing the public to a generic company Web site. Sizing up the sincerity of corporate apologies 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z So, if the inequity of tipping less for a generic drink than an artisanal one really gets your goat, simply tip more for the cheaper version. Social Q?s: A Husband?s Thoughts and Actions Count - Social Q?s 2011-12-01T21:39:37Z Plot credibility, of course, is the least important aspect of movies like this, which are all about attitude, lethal accessories and generic, smart-mouth dialogue. ‘The Protégé’ Review: Ladykiller 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “I was trying to achieve a ‘generic global product’ like tofu. | An Artist Who Brings Background Music to the Forefront 2014-03-28T17:01:24Z It’s not for people who want generic and homogenized. | A Designer Brings His Quirky Vision to Westhampton Beach 2013-05-31T18:33:48Z Kokkoros has been shooting stock footage for a living since 2009, the year industry observers say the demand for generic imagery really took off. Who are all those smiling people in campaign advertisements? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z In spite of its generic title, “A Serbian Film,” directed by Srdjan Spasojevic, has already provoked scandal on the festival circuit and fascination from devotees of extreme cinema. | 'A Serbian Film': Torture or Porn? No Need to Choose 2011-05-12T22:28:36Z It’s generic, she said, but no one will judge you if your house smells like vanilla. Is That the Enticing Smell of Spaghetti Cooking? Nope, It’s a Candle. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z But imagine the passage above as nonfiction: exchange the particularity of “Oblonksy” for a generic, the “well-to-do liberal.” An Answer to the Novel’s Detractors 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z “I think it’s a funny sort of nod to generic Italian-American dishes that people know.” The Case for Marsala 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The only footage from the White House was generic. Sean Spicer's double humiliation on "Dancing With the Stars" 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Swathes of the choreography also feel generic — contemporary in an unspecific and Western sense. Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Crumbine took an invention known as the Fly Bat — a screen attached to a yardstick — and renamed it the Fly Swatter, which became the generic term we use today. Makers: Who Made That Fly Swatter? 2012-05-27T06:55:04Z Mike: No, yeah, I wanted it to be generic, like you’ll see on Lumberg’s license plate there’s no state on it which I guess is kind of weird. "Office Space" 20th anniversary: Read the full Q&A moderated by Richard Linklater 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The emotions expressed in them tend to be as generic as their titles, unfortunately, and heard one after another, they begin to blend together into a soup of soaring melody. Review: ‘The Bodyguard’ Is Shadowed by a Stalker, and a Superstar 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Martin Shkreli, the infamous pharmaceutical industry CEO responsible for hiking the cost of his company’s lifesaving drug from $13.50 to $750 overnight, once tweeted that “Every time a drug goes generic, I grieve.” How Big Pharma is hindering treatment of the opioid addiction epidemic 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z But staying just inland, inside the charming 16th-century walled part of the city, a Unesco World Heritage site, offers less generic options. Check In : Hotel Review: Hotel Santo Toribio in Cartagena, Colombia 2014-04-08T19:50:55Z But many, understandably, feel protective – this coast now looks worryingly ripe for big-bucks investors to plant glossy high-rises and generic condos. Greetings from a new-look Asbury Park 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Vagueness does become a virtue in Matt Saunders’s set, in which a generic kitchen at one point changes into a grim hospital room with remarkable effectiveness. ‘Catch as Catch Can’ Review: Caught in a Tangle 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Thankfully, the Mary Wollstonecraft of “Love and Fury” is neither small nor generic, but vivid, flawed, larger than life. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z But then there’s something generic about this movie too, with its dreary, dimensionless digital photography that dribbles from character to character, all of whom are underwritten and largely in the service of the joke. | 'Cyrus': Jonah Hill in Duplass Brothers? Comedy 2010-06-17T21:55:00Z It's an interminable, momentum-free yarn concerning dodgy east European bank robbers that only serves as a generic chassis on which to bolt the fist fights, shoot-outs, car chases, and random acts of police brutality. The Sweeney – review 2012-06-27T00:38:03Z You knew he wasn’t going to say or do anything too provocative or divisive or interesting, and that steady blandness reminded me of Johnny Carson, the generic white-guy Oscar host of my youth. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Based on the 2015 young-adult novel by Julie Murphy that shares its title, the movie takes place in a generic fantasy of a small town where working-class life looks comfortably middle class. Review: ‘Dumplin’’ Shares an Ordinary Girl’s Truth 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z With her cascading short chapters and teasers by the dozen, you stick with Lapena eagerly despite the flavorless scene-setting and generic cops. Review | The 5 best new thrillers and mysteries to read in August 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Two days after writing to Enfamil, I received a generic ‘sorry for your loss’ reply with an offer to remove me from its mailing list. Motherlode Blog: The Pregnancy Is Gone, but the Promotions Keep Coming 2014-02-02T13:25:15Z And this generic young trio don't think about it all that hard. Film review: Frozen 2010-09-23T22:03:00Z As a character, Guy is a bit too generic to be relatable — except when he suddenly reveals some very specific fixations that feel unrelated to the storyline. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Dr. Hughes has created her own questionnaires for her clients, “generic questions I have developed from knowing the developmental stages the adult children are in,” she said. Never Too Old to Hurt From Parents’ Divorce 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He could be the generic, genetically engineered spirit of boys’ adventure. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z That distinction is immaterial in the 21st century, at least in reference to what appears to be a kind of every-person generic comedy. Review: Theater as Sabotage in the Dazzling ‘Fairview’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z But hotels, with their air conditioning, white walls, and generic art, reminded me too much of hospitals. Road to Recovery 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z His bearing was straight, his lean body subtly muscled; here was a generic handsomeness suitable for an audience's worship. Hitchcock's Dark Dreamboat: Farley Granger (1925-2011) 2011-03-30T16:55:00Z It's a bland, generic movie about nice people, nothing more. 'Soul Surfer': Film based on real inspirational girl feels fake 2011-04-08T21:44:04Z It was decorated in a generic expensive style. The Return of Tony Blair 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s no surprise that Mr. Ross ends up nudging “Captain Fantastic” into more generic terrain. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In other pictures you feel condescension masquerading as social sympathy, as in generic images of emaciated women — drug addicts, no doubt — sitting exhaustedly on stoops. Art Review: Leon Levinstein?s Photographs of New Yorkers 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z On second thought, these are hard times, no matter what color you are; buy the generic brand and bring the whole box. "The Help": A tale of not-so-ancient American history 2011-08-10T00:30:00Z After all, they’re the ones who performed alchemy on the first Lego Movie, wrestling a genuinely inventive blockbuster from what easily could have been a transparently generic money-making exercise. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In my mind, they have dogs and a gleaming pickup truck, but they don’t live on farmland; instead, they live in a grey-fronted new-build on an uphill cul-de-sac in a generic American town. Oh Jeremy Renner, you only have thousands of versions of yourself to blame for your app's failure 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Their view of their past is “generic” rather than individualized. 5 Things That Make Love Last 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Adams has spent his fair share of time in generic hotel rooms: Over the past two years he has had solo shows in London, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Omaha. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Rather than dazzle with intellectual sophistication or complex characters, the show owes its enduring appeal to the generic milestones with which it cannily invites reflection on our own life journeys. Pasadena Playhouse tweaks 1960s' 'The Fantasticks' for a post-9/11 era 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Neither is inherently better or worse, but Harding’s reading, eliciting one big, full phrase after another, felt more generic. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z I buy mine in Manhattan’s Chinatown, where a generic type and a superior quality wild dried shrimp from Louisiana are available. One Pound of Shrimp, a Meal for Four 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z This forced FDA to reverse its position; in October 2012, the agency declared that Teva’s generic is “not therapeutically equivalent” to the original. Generic drugs aren’t necessarily the same 2013-04-24T16:12:00Z Jolly has crafted a production that may not be subtle, but it is generic and spectacular enough to make space for newcomers as well as audience members who grew up with “Starmania.” France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As a guilty-town ghost story, “The Fog” has a generic resemblance to “Poltergeist,” which it predates, and is even more emphatic. In ‘The Fog,’ Made After ‘Halloween,’ Seafaring Zombies Arrive 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z "The ideal of a generic solution just didn't fit." Birmingham's brilliant new schools – but could they be they last? 2013-01-22T19:00:01Z The show’s notable weakness is the generic pop flavor of most of Mr. Alter’s music. Theater Review: ‘Nobody Loves You,’ TV Satire at Old Globe in San Diego 2012-06-08T21:59:29Z The pratfalls and generic physical jokes — one ballerina knocking down another, sometimes by accident — are fail-safe, yet the satire of Fokine’s ballet blanc is also exactly on target. Looking Fabulous at 40, and Still Happy to Step on a Few Toes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Other chapters, like “It’s Complicated” and “As Young as We’ll Ever Be,” are more generic and feel like filler. The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z These drawings, like the Canadian images, are generic. Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Yet despite the exquisite locations of the filmmaker's first story of love, Italian style, this bland ensemble romance deserves the generic name rather than the clever working titles it started with. Review: Allen's 'Rome' delivers lackluster love 2012-06-19T19:16:05Z The pastel rectangle of her customary coat and the bright disk of a matching hat, the black oblong of her handbag and the generic low-heeled pumps are almost Warholian in their Pop simplicity. Queen Elizabeth II Sets a Style Standard 2012-06-01T16:59:27Z It takes plot elements familiar from any generic drama — an affair, a controlling patriarch, economic struggles — drops an autistic child in the middle of them and observes the ripple effects, which are considerable. Review: ‘The A Word’ Takes Unblinking Look at Autism 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z He created pictures that at first seem blandly anecdotal, generic, even contentless. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z “The idea was to have something that immediately gives you a sense of place, an identity, so that this isn’t just another generic museum,” Mr. Weinberg said. Inside Art: Elevators as Art, for the New Whitney 2013-06-06T23:00:15Z The second drawing plots what we could identify as "a tree" — quotation marks added — meaning tree as a generic type. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Its offices are located in the front corner of a generic office park in Branchburg, and like all flavor operations with labs or finished ingredients on-site, the office was permeated with a smell. “Modern chicken has no flavor” — let’s make it in a lab 2013-03-17T16:00:00Z They coo happily, after the long drive, over the sterile, utterly generic furnishings of their new home: dishwasher, television set, convertible couch. The Model Apartment: A Great Play Rediscovered 2013-10-16T12:00:01Z In effect, “Life” envisions a space mission to be like a generic movie itself, one that results from a methodical and rigorous conformity to the script. “Life” Is Full of Horrors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z But those wry, almost poignant opening scenes make up for the occasional generic moments to come. Bruce Willis spies a good time in "Red" 2010-09-30T00:48:00Z Distinct cinematic visions and bold narrative experiments help distinguish the second week of New Directors/New Films, trumping the more familiar festival-ready drifting stories and generic youthful ennui. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “We were both very aware that we were going to be interviewed afterwards, so it was a light, generic conversation,” Elena said. Date Lab: It didn’t ‘take much to get us to start talking’ 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z There is no generic buffet here: Breakfast is served at the sleek Modern restaurant abutting the lobby, where made-to-order options include an overly generous Greek breakfast. In Ancient Athens, a Most Modern Hotel 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z She follows these themes into the hinterlands, around the world and into literature and also takes poetic license while ranging effectively between masterpieces and relatively generic examples of visual culture. Art Review: ‘Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,’ at South Street Seaport 2012-08-02T23:17:05Z But the intruding synth line is jacked up in a generic, energy drink way that compromises Joker's distinctiveness and opposes his previous knack for nuance and minimalism. Music Monday: Joker, Guilty Simpson, Lil B feat. Elliott Smith 2010-04-12T19:43:00Z Bush now commands a style, generic but efficient, of thick, summary brushwork that aims to capture expression as well as physiognomy. George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Barber adhered to tried-and-true formal schemes and generic conventions from the 19th century, adding tangy harmonies and metrical sleights of ear to disguise, however thinly, the traditional harmonic and melodic organization of his compositions. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z Ms. Curran kept disappearing behind three wooden panels, then emerging with a new hairstyle and new movement to match: severe, classical positions for a slicked-back bun; generic writhing for loose, flowing locks. Dance Review: New Chamber Ballet Unveils Three New Works 2014-04-07T22:39:48Z But the electronic sounds took the form of generic hip-hop and Punjabi beats that disintegrated into tiresome noise over awkward vocal lines. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z “Taken 2” staged another kidnapping under the hilariously ludicrous premise that the father of the villain in “Taken” would want to avenge the unjust death of his generic sleazebag sex-trafficking son. The surprisingly durable second act of Liam Neeson 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z This single provision dramatically reduces the costs of producing and selling generic drugs. Lipitor is Dead. Long Live Lipitor! 2011-11-30T18:25:33Z The effects are as generic as the cookie-cutter mission revival house the film is set in. 'The Apparition': not a ghost of a chance of being good 2012-08-24T17:26:04Z The five copper sculptures that he calls “We the People” look like generic abstraction. Art Review: ?The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial? 2012-02-16T23:45:32Z For an audience that just wants to be entertained, it’s far simpler to connect to generic anxieties than it is to fit together any puzzle pieces casually submitted for our approval. Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone" is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z On the principle of searching for the most generic film concepts possible, I found 28 entries for Hero, 21 for Crash, 13 for Star and just 8 for Gun. Awakening to the commonest film title 2010-12-29T13:24:00Z They adhere to a generic Surrealism, even when more cheerful, as in a figure that is part tree. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z Residential areas will be interlaced with the kind of open public spaces — parks, plazas and the waterfront promenades — that are generic in large Western-style developments but almost impossible to find in Saudi Arabia. Critic?s Notebook: Laying Out Economic Cities, Saudis See Window to Modernity 2010-12-13T03:28:00Z Mans is clearly a huge star in Sweden despite being overly polished and generic, which, based on my experiences at Ikea, might be a virtue in his home nation. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Why exactly, for instance, use James Taylor’s “Your Smiling Face” except to throw a generic nod to Boomers? Dead Tree Alert: The DJ in Chief; or, Running for Office, One Pop Song at a Time 2012-02-16T16:50:45Z But Mr. Houseago’s eccentric enthusiasms are muffled by his reverence for traditions old and Modernist and by his Postmodernist play with generic formal and stylistic conventions. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z Instead of generic paintings, rooms feature posters from past events around the city. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Then you are most likely experiencing chillwave, the generic surge in post-Animal Collective bands who have as much time for melodies and electronic sounds as distortion and psychedelic drugs. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Eventually, Mr. Liman’s eccentricities and the morbidly funny neo-screwball vibe that he establishes are swamped by generic pyrotechnics and noise. Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z A friendly civilian can help translate your experience into generic terms. Work Advice: Résumés, Part 2: Winning over the humans 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But containing the fish is as difficult as stopping the partyers from dancing on boats in their bikinis to generic house music. 'Piranha 3D': Run, don't walk, to see this fun horror flick 2010-08-19T22:27:00Z It was because it’s so generic and American and you go there and see all this glitzy, Las Vegas architecture and then you turn a corner and it’s just ordinary. Mick Jagger explains his Instagram obsession and how he wound up at the Thirsty Beaver Saloon 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z As a result, it is “difficult, if not impossible, to draw a clear line between his portrayals of real people and his more generic depictions of the human face and figure.” Picasso’s life, portrait by portrait 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But if you’re contemplating a generic mug as a gift, opt for tea or coffee instead. Perspective | 5 gifts a professional organizer says you should never give 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Even though the Big Pharma companies sold almost no patented drugs in Africa and had no profits to lose in those countries by permitting generics, they still refused. Pick of the week: Big Pharma’s African genocide 2013-09-05T23:00:00Z Any brand of cola, really, RC Cola, Shasta, maybe a generic grocery store brand cola.'“ Trevor Noah Tricks His Audience Into Singing ‘Happy Birthday’ for Trump 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The more raucous figurative watercolors of Charles Demuth in the collection are passed over for two of his generic renderings of vegetables. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z In a second room, two are displayed on actual Judd tables with a generic sofa, a Josef Albers painting and walls draped with rust-printed silk. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z It's hard to escape the feeling that, in seeking to establish a more individual identity, Cyrus has become more generic. Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed 2010-06-24T14:31:00Z But the characterizations and conflicts here are strictly generic. Review: In ‘The Boy and the Beast,’ Learning From Anime Animals 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z As a sample of native talent, it’s disappointingly generic, though as a representative of contemporary ballet, it works fine. Dance Review: Royal New Zealand Ballet’s First New York Visit 2014-02-13T23:03:39Z In its final days it was reduced to a few dehumanizing formulas for generic housing blocks and office towers. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z The nondescript living room set, with its beige walls and generic furniture, doesn’t sharply evoke Georgetown or the early 1960s, despite period copies of magazines on a coffee table. An awkward and amateurish ‘Hedda Gabler’ by Quotidian Theatre Company I would argue for worse because it’s a special problem, not a generic problem, and we tend to get those things confused. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Although the songs basically adhere to generic rock and pop styles, the music teems below the surface with rich details, and the score abounds in intricate ensemble writing. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z Mr. Fincher underlines that isolation by showing Nick both alone in the frame and in his house, where he’s at times dwarfed and almost swallowed up by its generic, oversize rooms. Ben Affleck in David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z A third, smaller work, “Origin of Cotton,” which Mr. Clemente also worked on, is dense and not as distinctive — a generic ’80s painting. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z Now that Broadway is an international brand name, he sighs, some of its product is, inevitably, “more generic and less eccentric, less unusual, less New York.” ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Next take, and two last tropes, the surrealistic title that has nothing to do with the song and the diligently, nay obsessively, worked on generic blues number. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Wall texts too often lapse into generic, user-friendly art speak, and contain little of the substantial thought and context that Bell outlines in the catalogue. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z They just sent a generic "blah blah," keeping it open. "It's going to destroy jobs": When an AI image won a photo contest, its human refused the award 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z And like Brando he has a turn of phrasing that makes even the most generic sentences sound worthy of serious analysis. Theater Review | 'A Behanding in Spokane': Packing Heat, and a Grudge 2010-03-05T04:55:00Z The German market was the second-largest market for generics after the U.S. Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z “Smiley Suicide” is not just a critique of enforced, artificial happiness or racism, but of the generic, reductive nature of symbols. What lies beneath the grinning visage in 'Smiley Suicide' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z In others, it is a kind of gaily packaged generic equivalent to some better-known brand. 'The Night Shift,' NBC's new hospital drama, does no harm 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The hotel, part of a generic chain, is about as far away from punk rock as one can get. No hint of mellowing for ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon 2012-10-15T23:06:50Z It’s also one of his worst plays: intellectually thin, overly familiar, blandly generic. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The title may sound generic, but there’s nothing blurry about Mr. Karam’s scorching drama, which opened on Broadway on Thursday at the Helen Hayes Theater. Review: ‘The Humans’ Depicts a Family, and a Country, Under Pressure 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z How strange that a filmmaker as idiosyncratic and fearless as Denis has made such a generic, tentative film. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Instead, the aging cabinets, still fully functional, look like generic versions of the classics. Russian video arcade captures dying culture 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z “Gloria” has moments of boldness, but its occasional lapses into generics keep it from feeling like a major personal statement. Sam Smith Seeks Self-Acceptance and Catharsis, and a Sound to Match 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z While the subjects are generic, the play of forms is terrifically lively, calling to mind early-20th-century Cubism and the compacted allegories of Max Beckmann. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It hardly ever appears on TV and in films, because it is seen as bland and generic. From sidekick to superstar: the rise of the salad 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “You don’t know that,” she says, addressing the generic male legislator, “because you’re a man.” Trump has spurred hundreds of women to run for office. Guess what? Some are Republican. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Unknown isn't in the class of any of these films, but it does rise above Taken's generic revenge story to the level of marginally satisfying winter diversion. Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z For me, Bay’s Transformers: Dark of The Moon is some kind of magical manifestation of the perfected generic summer blockbuster. Beyond Batman: Christopher Nolan Really Is Hollywood’s Best New Talent 2012-07-18T11:59:39Z It is the private lust and anguish played out behind the drapes of generic upscale-hotel rooms. ‘Tails of Wasps’: a politician stung by his own infidelity 2014-04-12T03:23:29Z Similarly, Yossi’s friends remain essentially enigmas, generic sidekicks without much to distinguish them beyond degrees of daring and propensity for bickering. Review: Braving Foot Rot and Fire Ants in the Amazon ‘Jungle’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Still, to this day, people dress as his Pennywise for Halloween parties; his jovial form has become the shorthand for Scary Clown in generic fancy dress shop costume rentals. Fears of a clown: why the original It will always be the best 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z A brooding period piece in which Paloma and a generic male model hate each other. The 2012 pop video awards 2012-12-27T09:00:00Z He is haunted by the idea that her death was preventable, if only Bioprime, a powerful medical research company, hadn’t blocked a generic version of a patented cancer medication from reaching the market. ‘Sweet Girl’ Review: Violence as an Insurance Policy 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The song is a generic thumper; what sets it apart are the vocals, spoken by what sounds like a gum-snapping young woman, who rambles so much she probably gets on her own nerves. Music Review: The Chainsmokers Perform ‘#SELFIE’ at Highline Ballroom 2014-04-15T21:37:24Z I heard about it on Tumblinerb.com , where blogger Andrew Nosnitsky wrote "Cobain is probably rolling over in his grave knowing that his disembodied voice is now the chorus of a generic stoner's hymn." Yelawolf jacks Nirvana's "Marijuana" 2010-11-19T00:01:00Z “The Nineties,” with the modest, generic subtitle “A Book,” is neither history nor memoir, but rather uses each genre as an alibi for the shortcomings of the other. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And he said Kendrick’s plates are more durable than their cheaper generic counterparts. The latest thing chefs are willing to spend big bucks on to impress diners 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z After all that hard work, the idea of staying in one of Lhasa's generic Chinese hotel blocks is depressing. Summoned to Shambhala Palace 2010-07-07T13:35:00Z Those elements are so generic that the judge in the case, Louis L. Stanton, stipulated they were not protected by copyright. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Most are a generic version of Kansas City-style sauce — thick with a viscosity that's far closer to ketchup than vinegar and sweet, most likely thanks to brown sugar, honey, or both. A step-by-step guide to making easy BBQ sauce 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The white wine — only one generic kind — is served in metal pitchers. Choice Tables: How to Eat Well in Athens 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z One goes to a museum not for generic experience, the way one goes to Applebee’s, or a Six Flags park. Behind the scenes at an exhibition 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “To say, ‘That looks like airport art’ wouldn’t be a compliment,” said Nicholas Baume, director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund, of the kind of generic, corporate-looking artworks often found in airports. Artists to Transform La Guardia Airport 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z In the case of Dramamine and Bonine, generic versions cost about a tenth of the name brand. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But would government procurement of generic medicines for dispensing at clinics solve the problem? Huevos de austeridad 2012-06-26T14:27:00Z Speaking to about 20 fans in New Delhi, mostly young women, Ma Sheela avoided discussing her past and focused on a generic message of empowerment. Indian guru Rajneesh’s ex-aide to star in new documentary 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The iPic, a chain with locations in nine states, is luxe in the generic manner of a high-end casino or an airport lounge, dark and sleek, with plush patterned carpets. Why Can’t You Get a Decent Meal at the Movies? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z And I think it’s their generic nature that most interests Mr. Jacob-Jenkins. Theater Review: In ‘Appropriate,’ Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Subverts Tradition 2014-03-17T02:00:16Z He liked his monochromes so much that he produced them in series under generic titles. 2010-02-12T15:25:00Z And the move from the film’s generic 3-D animation to the series’s 2-D is an improvement — the early episodes look great, with deep, saturated colors, natural movement and a relatively high level of detail. Television Review: ‘Turbo FAST’ Arrives on Netflix 2013-12-23T22:13:36Z Some restaurants, if your bottle was expensive enough or your name recognizable, would whisk away the generic glasses on the table and replace them with Zaltos. The Best Wine Glass for Any Occasion: Our Critic Reviews 5 New Contenders 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Dumb as dirt and just as generic, “Hitman: Agent 47” trades brains for bullets and characters for windup toys. Review: Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto in a Pas de Bullets, ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Then there was the time I made some generic couscous, ignoring the special kind he bought on his last grocery run. Criticism Is My Love Language 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Should I just redouble efforts to stay in touch, or give a generic thank you for helping me through a tough time? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Grieving a miscarriage and getting help from an unlikely place 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Aged for three years or so in the bottle, Delamotte Brut reveals unusual complexity and “great consistency, without being generic,” says Knowles. How to make the most out of Valentine’s Day dinner at a restaurant 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “There is something we like about Uniqlo in the generic dimension.” Is There Life After Hermès? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Set in a generic doctor’s office with drab linoleum flooring, this play turns latent prejudice into something palpable and uncomfortable. Grey area 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention. Review: ‘Dumbo’ Goes Bonkers in Dreamland 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z His books, with generic titles and alphabetical listings by artist or group, covered vast musical territory: “Top R&B Singles, 1942-2016,” “Hit Country Records, 1954-1982,” “Across the Charts: The Sixties.” Joel Whitburn, Tireless Researcher of Music Charts, Dies at 82 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z This group treats the notion of “champagne” as a generic term referring to all sparkling wines, differentiating among them by price, and occasionally by quality. Among Sparkling Wines, the Other Half Lives Pretty Well 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The pristine apartments, with their freshly painted walls, sleek appliances and large flat-screen televisions, look like generic enclaves of privilege. Movie Review: ‘Neighboring Sounds,’ Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho 2012-08-23T22:30:30Z Colloquially, it's already a generic term for e-reader, so widely used it threatens to become a verb, like "to hoover" or "to google". Why too many Es is bad for us but great for Amazon 2012-06-08T10:00:02Z It’s not from a lack of energy, certainly, but there is an airy, generic quality to everything she does. Review | Violinist Rachel Barton Pine a deft player 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z I liked that he wasn't the generic, emotionally-damaged, grieving older brother, and was quite a mystery to the audience, even at the end. Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Jill Wolfson - review 2012-06-30T08:00:00Z But the dining room, by the design firm Wonderwall, mostly looks like money to me, apart from the shelves half-filled with coffee-table books, black crow figurines and other eerily generic knickknacks. At Last, a Restaurant With That New-Car Smell 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z And it was there that he transformed his manner of speaking into a cross between upper-class Indian English and generic American. Suket Dhir, Men’s Wear Designer, From Delhi to the World 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The “wife” label, the “mother label,” the “homeowner label” all new; none felt generic, at least to me, they were points of pride and exactly where I wanted to be. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z A rock star makes an appearance, providing some much-needed OxyContin after a party in Los Angeles, but he remains nameless and generic. Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z For the most part “Made in China” is just that: generic. Dance Review: No Moving to Speak of, but Plenty of Speaking 2010-12-17T22:40:02Z "The thing you worry about is just chewing up the scenery and doing a kind of generalized, generic 'crazy person,' " Sarandon said. 'Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe' takes fresh approach to familiar tale 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Her generic home goods seem to commemorate the rough years she spent moving between public housing, homeless shelters and low-end rentals. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Mostly, they are just vaguely sketched conceits — jaded, corrupt, yammering — who look good in suits, smack around generic villains and make nice with the ladies. Review: ‘War on Everyone’ Is Missing Some Crucial Components 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z "Everyone wants to be artisanal, vinyl, organic, but when it comes to people, they want it to be generic. Somebody's got to make a choice!" Colin Quinn is embracing the moment — his moment 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Unlike those earlier, more generic bottles, these all have a real sense of place and identity. 12 Wines From Argentina and Chile to Seek Out 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In addition, they were randomly informed that he was either at a generic university or a “top-tier” school. Pharrell is onto something: Dressing for success means deviating from the norm 2014-02-17T00:00:00Z “I do not take this lightly, and Mr Lagerfeld’s generic ‘statement’ of regret for this ‘controversy’ was not an apology,” her statement read. Meryl Streep lambasts Karl Lagerfeld over Oscars dress 'slander' 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Wharton now leads the team at Urban Heights, a name so generic it says nothing about the cuisine, which draws partially on the chef’s previous work at the Pennsylvania Avenue NW restaurant. Urban Heights review: In Bethesda, this revival needs more reviving 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But the orchestra’s playing was curiously generic and staid. Review: Andris Nelsons Makes New York Debut as Boston Symphony Leader 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But the country is really just an attractive, putatively exotic backdrop and as generic as it is in most mindless action blowouts. ‘Triple Frontier’ Review: Men on a Mission? Possible! 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z He’s developed into an adequate if often generic manager of action and bodies, but his real talent is for delivering extreme violence with a shrug and a smile. Review: In ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service,’ Colin Firth Get His Suits Splattered 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z This film spits in the eye of test audiences and generic comedies, and it could be a delicious parody of the hidden narcissism, delusion and hysteria that lie behind most movies. The Canyons: what could go wrong? 2013-01-17T18:11:45Z They prefer to select something personal, not just a generic holiday image they buy by the box, sign and send out. Holiday cards are having a moment, thanks to their popularity with millennials 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “Honor Among Thieves” isn’t set in a generic fantasy land. A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z A weakness is that few of its characters are instantly memorable or distinctive; there’s a kind of generic, TV-commercial homogeneity to the Chester’s Mill we first see. TV Tonight: Under the Dome 2013-06-24T13:52:12Z Dark Skies is set in a tranquil suburban everytown, brimming with Americana but generic enough to be anywhere. Dark Skies trailer: pretty normal activity for Jason Blum 2012-11-28T12:59:59Z Yet the artifice of the form works something wondrous with the material, highlighting the generic nature of our response to extreme violence. Review: 5 Murdered Prostitutes and an Anxious City in ‘London Road’ 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War” is a generic documentary about two people who were anything but. Review: ‘Defying the Nazis’: An American Couple on a Rescue Mission 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Christine shouts as she throws nearly an entire case of generic Prilosec into her cart. Why Christine Baskets Was One of TV’s Greatest Characters 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Diverse as they are, those shows are the latest expression of a popular fascination with generic gypsy culture. Front Row: The Gypsy Look Rejoins the Fashion Caravan 2012-02-29T22:41:34Z Characters are utterly generic and one-dimensional — the golden-haired princess, the wicked stepmother, the lucky third son. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Nearly every marker of his regionalism, every bit of evidence of his steadfast dedication to exploring Los Angeles and Southern California, has elements of the generic or the universal. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z But this time she built a silhouette from generic and neutralizing volumes. Fashion Review: Designers Anonymous 2011-01-19T22:49:22Z Instead, his big idea is for the members of the group to render their routines personal, to replace their generic stage personae with ones that reflect each performer’s personality, taste, and ambition. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z It's generic angry-girl rock – not riot grrrl, because it doesn't have a polemic to back it up, just a series of signifiers to connote being born to be riled. New band of the day ? No 768: Pretty Reckless 2010-04-19T10:18:00Z Their characters are more or less generic immigrant archetypes, but the actors do a great job of hiding how exhausted they must be from the constant march of history and costume changes. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Land,’ at Baruch Performing Arts Center 2012-11-23T21:44:28Z Satish says, "Fighting legal battles for generics in the U.S. is a part of the business model, whereas the Brazilian battle was an unknown risk factor." Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z I can say with confidence that non-specific, voluminous “likes” and “winks” and generic compliments had very little effect on my own self-worth. I’m the woman you met on Ashley Madison: How the rush of infidelity led to affairs online 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Birds and birdcages appear throughout as more generic harbingers of resurrection and rebirth. 2010-02-12T23:56:00Z “A lot of the retail expectations just again reminded me of that kind of generic production, which is what I was doing in fashion,” she said. Behind the Wheel in L.A., With a New Destination 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s the same feeling moviegoers must have had in the World War II era, when Hollywood was churning out generic battlefield films featuring the same life-or-death drama, bonding and sacrifice. Television Review: ‘Chicago Fire,’ a Rescue Squad Drama, on NBC 2012-10-09T22:01:18Z But the project revealed that once the focus shifts from treating people as generic problems to treating them as individuals, explanations and remedies emerge. When cities fail their residents: Why can’t wealthy cities fix the homeless problem? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z And the "Think Pink!" number was more than a take-off of generic magazine silliness. Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart – review 2013-03-01T12:00:01Z Then, about two months later, he showed up for a play date with an unwrapped video game disc that was in a generic, broken case. Ask Amy: Mom teaches twin sons wrong lesson on giving 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z After some generic waffle about how telephones are better than computers – which they're not, by the way – the ad presents us with our question: is his girlfriend Jane pregnant or not? The Hard Sell: BT 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z For instance, chain-link fencing was installed because it did not need county approval, and liability concerns led the group to purchase a generic playground instead of one designed with the residents. Out of Desert Dust, a Miracle on a Shoestring 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Trump's contempt for our traditions is on full display not just in her first years of inhospitable decorating, but even in this, the supposed generic answer. There's no comfort & joy in Melania Trump's bleak and impersonal Christmas decor 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Headliners JLS lack one iota of the Beach Boys' mercurial magic, and are calling time on their generic but successful pop/R&B career. Beach Boys/JLS – review 2013-07-08T17:13:43Z If his pyrotechnics can seem generic, so what? It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The choreography of seven new Broadway musicals I’ve recently seen falls into the category of “good generic.” Critic’s Notebook: A Look at This Year’s Broadway Choreography 2014-04-25T22:05:13Z Although his singing is merely adequate, Mr. Levi brings a vitality and off-kilter humor to his performance and succeeds in rubbing away some of Aaron’s more generic qualities with his warmly quirky line readings. Theater Review: ‘First Date,’ a Musical, Opens on Broadway 2013-08-09T02:00:09Z As a whole the characters were "shoddily drawn" and "off-the-rack generic" to the extent that one cared little about them. 'This remarkably tedious novel': Michiko Kakutani skewers Martin Amis 2010-05-11T15:07:00Z From our point of view, the characters seem to share the same space, a tidy but soul-crushingly generic room in a motel on the outskirts of Boston. A Revival of A. R. Gurney’s ‘Wayside Motor Inn’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And the cover of my edition was about as "generic horror book" as it's possible to find. Rereading Stephen King: Different Seasons 2013-01-15T11:10:21Z It may feel like cold comfort, a generic consolation, to say that a person lives on in her books, in her words, and in the people those words touched. Review | Rachel Held Evans died at 37, but a beautiful new book captures her brave outlook 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Later directors made similar use of low angles, fluid camerawork and maximum chiaroscuro, cleverly recycling elements of the generic studio lot on which most episodes were shot. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It is generic in the truest sense, a genre defined and constrained by a handful of conventions. The Latest Romance Novels: Firefighters, Buff Male Nannies, Astronauts and More 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z In the championships’ vendor hall, one can purchase a generic fan replica of this year’s Bush’s Beans-emblazoned pro jersey. The world’s cornhole elite, chasing that one perfect toss 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Silence Goes Beyond Golden; It Could Save Two Lives Among the many lessons in “A Thousand Words” is how to manufacture a slick and generic Hollywood comedy-drama. Movie Review: ?A Thousand Words,? Directed by Brian Robbins 2012-03-09T00:36:25Z Their tuneful songs reward flashy vocalism and are generic enough to flatter many kinds of interpretation. Review: A Girl’s Kerouac Dreams Go Astray in ‘The Mad Ones’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z I have given you on the three issues, how I govern in generic. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z In other words, the praiseworthy aspects of “AfterEffect” are generic. Review: With ‘AfterEffect,’ Marcelo Gomes Debuts as a Choreographer 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Across 26 different product categories—coffees, diapers, household cleaners, mayonnaise, and much else—the study found that in Republican or religious counties, generic and new brands captured considerably less market share. Conservatives and liberals drink different beer 2013-02-27T16:32:00Z As several specialists have pointed out, the generic term for music, ongaku, has come mainly to signify music in Western styles, with hogaku left to represent indigenous forms. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z The problem with a crime drama that’s all grace notes and rueful jokes is that if you aren’t completely absorbed by the characters, you start to notice how generic the construction is. Television Review: Jackson Brodie Mysteries on PBS - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:58Z A dress pattern is an Impressionist splash of color, faces are generic, bland, like those of wood-carved medieval saints. Art In Review: TOMOAKI SUZUKI 2012-11-29T20:26:18Z Louis is the thoughtful soul of a generic product—Go2 Cola is neither wholesome nor satisfyingly desirable in the way of an élite junk food. “Everything Is Alive” and the Joy of Interviewing Inanimate Objects 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z It’s the worst form of a representative identity: both generic and anonymous, a means to an end, an everywoman who is nobody. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z While more conservative artists and their followers are happy to paddle in the predictable shallows of generic art making, braver souls are willing to dissolve the limits of their chosen form. Top draw: artists pushing the boundaries of drawing 2013-07-02T00:29:00Z The coat tossed over the shoulders is a generic styling maneuver. Perspective | Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He remembers filling out generic forms that included questions like: “Would you do nudity?” The secret lives of moviestar newborns: who are they, and what is all that goo? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The good news is that Mr. Vasell’s latest efforts are an improvement over the rather generic monochrome canvases that he exhibited in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Art in Review: CHRIS VASELL: ?The Estate of Chris Vasell? 2010-12-16T23:41:09Z The siblings’ London-based pharma operation, Auden McKenzie, specialises in the development, licensing and marketing of niche generic medicines, and is at the cutting edge of work into areas such as treating heroin addiction. Victoria Beckham tops chart of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z There’s something generic about their house, which looks less lived in than indifferently art directed, with the usual bric-a-brac and strategic family pictures. | 'Cyrus': Jonah Hill in Duplass Brothers? Comedy 2010-06-17T21:55:00Z After that, they devolve into generic crime pictures with screwball interludes. Perry Mason Is Coming to HBO. Here’s What to Know About His History. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Those Atlanta-specific details are missing from most films shot here, in which the city is a generic stand-in for "any city or every city," he said. Does Atlanta out-zombie Seattle? 2011-10-22T00:13:04Z The retro kid was now a state-of-the-art star—generic, but often brilliant just the same. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z They tend to overestimate the effects of a generic blazer or give too much credit to mysterious back-room handlers. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at Paul Ryan’s Fashion Sense 2012-08-15T19:47:31Z You can write three generic songs a day. The artful sound of Django Django 2012-09-09T23:48:34Z The tale-telling is less elaborate, even a bit rough and generic, and occasionally slightly muddled. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z The rest is covered by a generic field of sensuously brushed, subtly modulated color evoking tension between cosmic space and the raw materialism of paint. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z Prasad, vice chairman and CEO of Dr. Reddy's, says, "The entire premise of Indian companies being a globally competitive generic player is not going away in a hurry." Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z He was born in Ghana, and he recalls how, in his childhood, he heard his family and neighbors refer to white Europeans and Americans in generic, stereotypical terms, as outsiders. Art Review: ?Through African Eyes? at the Detroit Institute of Arts 2010-04-15T22:09:00Z And TV shows that depict actual lived life–with characters who are specific rather than generic–are interesting. History Channel’s Bible Is a Hit. Does That Mean TV Will Get Religion? 2013-03-05T15:54:18Z Hatch-Waxman created a pathway for generic drugs to get to the market without requiring generic companies to conduct expensive clinical trials or build costly sales forces to market their products. Lipitor is Dead. Long Live Lipitor! 2011-11-30T18:25:33Z The left hand side esp. the eye, looks like some generic face. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z The dancers are beautiful but generic, perhaps all younger versions of the older pair. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The long career of formal experiment and generic restiveness has made the success of these historical novels. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Even if, watching the trip play out, it was hard not to wish that a woman did not have to don generic male camouflage to enact her part. Kamala Harris, in Southeast Asia and in Uniform 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z What a certain strain of Musk’s fans were looking for was not the generic freedom to “be funny” on Twitter, but rather the opportunity to make specific kinds of jokes on that website. Perspective | Elon Musk’s Twitter is a safe space for bros who think they’re funny 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z “I would really like to go outside of the box and add an experimental aspect to hip-hop because I think hip-hop is so generic these days,” he said. Kid Krono Wrote Music for Kanye West Between Classes 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z “Not just an ordinary girl. Not just a fantastic girl. But the girl.” It’s a bit of a generic setup, but, OK, I’m following. “For an instant you even consider rape”: The terrifying 1970s manual that shaped the pickup-artist movement 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Almost no one now defends the use of a generic “he” — but what to replace it with? English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z In the center, folding tables hold hundreds of bingo cards, sorted alphabetically by generic drug name, from the blood pressure drug acebutolol to the antipsychotic ziprasidone. America’s other drug problem: Prescriptions are being wasted while the needy are shut out 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z And the stuff he was singing about was not just generic love stories, but things actually going on in his life. Jeffrey Lewis, Singer and Illustrator 2011-11-22T23:09:54Z As is the case with many recent mass shootings, whether driven by ideology, mental illness or some other impulse, it took place against the soft-target backdrop of generic, forgettable architecture. At Sandy Hook Elementary, a new campus and a new start at site of horror 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Yet there’s something fundamentally generic about Newt, with his flapping feet and innocuous eccentricities. Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Unleashes J.K. Rowling’s Magic on Old New York 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z That and other forms of indecisiveness muddle the work, which mainly rides the music’s surface with accurately timed commonplaces, substituting cutesy coyness and generic sass for the specific spirit of the past. Review: With ‘Dougla,’ Dance Theater of Harlem Recalls Past Glory 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The restaurant looks a little like the lobby of a Hampton Inn, with generic sailboat paintings on the yellow walls. At Rock Creek Kitchen, the Southern food lacks some kick 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z "The days of generic adult films are gone because there are many, many websites for stuff like that." Vivid Entertainment: A new business model for porn 2010-09-03T05:48:00Z His book wants to make us all smarter and wittier, without making us glib or generic, like so much talk on the Web. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z As ever, vernacular and generic architecture remain an irresistibly convenient vessel for contemporary artists. Doug Aitken's 'Mirage': a funhouse mirror for the age of social media 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z That Tonto has been criticized as being generic and subordinate - a character with no individuality and no life beyond helping the Lone Ranger. New Tonto, familiar feelings for Native Americans 2012-07-25T17:20:14Z There is too much aimless swimming around and generic intensity. Review: In ‘Daphne,’ the Cleveland Orchestra Takes on a Difficult Strauss Opera 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “I was,” Thorpe attempts to explain, “using a generic noun in an imperative clause.” ‘A Very English Scandal’ Review: Sex, Intrigue and Bunnies 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But the story is thin, the songs have a generic ring and the I’ve-Gotta-Be-Me sentimentality gets cloying. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z Although she’s played with a likable light touch by Ms. Reed, this figure, now generic, might as well have “spunky” tattooed in henna on one hand, and “sweet” on the other. Theater Review: ‘Aladdin’ Tweaks the Disney Formula With Breezy Insouciance 2014-03-21T02:00:01Z We got a generic chocolate bottle but we are using organic chocolate syrup that we pour into it. ArtsBeat: Eating With the Apple Family 2013-12-12T21:05:48Z At last, here was a specific rather than generic bit of characterization. Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z There’s the title, which appears to be chosen via some sort of generic thriller tombola. Why does Netflix keep making so many cheap TV movies? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Plus, the generic farm-ripe smell of the animal kingdom makes for unbeatable ambiance. Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z In her opinion, United States District Judge Jane J. Boyle said the “dearth of specificity” in the complaint “and the allegations are both generic and conclusory.” ArtsBeat Blog: Judge Dismisses Suit Against Dallas Art Museum 2011-12-01T19:29:21Z Though this tale of a woman’s search for a missing friend is built using basic potboiler blocks, “Sandra,” which opened Sunday at the Vineyard Theater, is far from generic. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z There isn't an ounce of ingenuity in the way the movie is concluded, but some generic expertise in the way it is put together. Sinister – review 2012-10-04T20:47:00Z But, for those who might accuse Eastwood of being a generic rightwing neanderthal, this is also the premise of The Wire. The meaning of Clint: what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Few people are typically energized by the generic category of “social media figure.” A Celebrity Z-List? Yes, It Exists 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z His corpus includes everything from major paintings and epic films to Mylar balloons and generic business portraits to monosyllabic interview responses and the standard italic font that became wholly identified with his rubber-stamped signature. Andy Warhol, Superstar 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z As the music played, currents of the sea would lap or facades of buildings in generic Italian squares would slide into place. New York Philharmonic Begins Season at the Movies 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “Under the moonlight or generic fluorescent light, people’s expressions glow and they look more beautiful.” Hiroyuki Ito’s City Nights 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z No one sees you as an individual any more but just as some kind of generic blob. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, he treats the tapes as information like any other, no more notable or significant than the stock footage or sound effects that pull the voice down to their generic level. Just Let Marlon Brando Talk 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The traditional lament of the abandoned girl raises generic expectations. Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory 2010-04-19T08:47:00Z Photograph: Alamy Walkman Museum Several decades before the invention of the iPod, the audio technical wonder of the age was the personal cassette player – given the generic name Walkman after Sony's bestselling model. Internet picks of the week 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z “Trails” is a love triangle crossed with a generic buddy road trip. ‘Trails’ a cross between love triangle, buddy road trip 2013-03-18T21:40:23Z When he visits her in Maine, a weakly acted city-country dramedy results, dawdling along with a generic story of love after grief. Movie Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Last year it moved from its first home — the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue — to 7 W New York, a generic Merchandise Mart space on 34th Street, opposite the Empire State Building. Art Review: New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show in a New Space 2010-03-25T21:27:00Z I found it packed - though it was surrounded by almost deserted more generic spots like Sbarro and Panda Express - and ordered the Italian special for $7.25. Frugal Traveler Blog: Atlantic City: Open for Business After the Storm 2012-11-14T00:18:19Z But for the most part, those are generic red wines. This $15 bottle shows that high-quality cabernet sauvignon isn’t out of reach 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z This generic soldier seems better attuned to Indian politics than his superiors. For king, then country 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The extreme closeups that find only generic worry in Riseborough’s face are kind to Cruise; he instinctively knows how to communicate to an audience through a possibly thoughtful stare. Tom Cruise in Oblivion: Drones and Clones on Planet Earth 2013-04-19T04:52:06Z At least the game doesn't last long, so you won't have to spend much time mourning the bland graphics, wonky controls and generic gameplay that could have been ripped off from any mid-1990s games. Game On: 'Alice' sequel wonderfully warped; 'Transformers' a waste 2011-06-22T18:34:15Z The documentation you carry should also indicate the generic and chemical names of the active ingredients, which determines permissibility, not brand names. How to Make Sure You Travel with Medication Legally 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z For a field that has long taken pride in generic work spaces — garages, dorm rooms and suburban office parks — this emerging architectural arms race is a major shift. A low-key Facebook building? In Gehry's hands, Zuckerberg has it both ways 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z So for our first run in Edinburgh, half of the songs were quite generic, and half were like, “The pope said nope!” The Making of ‘Six’: How Tudor Queens Turned Into Pop Stars 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z This generic action thriller needed more twist than growl. ‘Non-Stop’ a nonstarter 2014-02-26T22:59:39Z Martin and his advisory team saw relabeling Philpot’s works as appropriate, given that it’s most likely auction houses at the time gave his paintings their generic titles, rather than the artist himself. Black Portraits Get New Names, and a New Show 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z But the writing sometimes feels generic, with each character a type: Mike is an irresponsible drug user; Paul a straight-arrow family man; Vicky the nurse, a dying saint. Thought-provoking 'Puncture' documentarylike 2011-11-03T19:58:04Z Among their generic illusions are cataclysms of light, watery darknesses, a trail of sparkles worthy of Tinker Bell and a red-on-red orb so dry with pigment it looks like velvet. Dan Colen: ‘Miracle Paintings’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And Alexandria Shiner did what she could with the somewhat generic role of Kayla, rebelling against her parents and trying to figure out who she is, singing in a high, light soprano. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z “It seemed ironic, and sad, to me that people who were initially drawn to the natural beauty of Utah’s native landscapes often replaced them with generic, irrigation-requiring landscapes.” A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The series’ generic nirvana can feel distancing and bloodless, and some of the special-effects-based comedy falls flat. Review: In ‘The Good Place,’ Kristen Bell Is Dead and Crabby 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Exotic atmosphere was frequently supplied by a generic electronic hum, as lo-fi as the rubber-suit monsters and the cardboard spaceship consoles. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But the show only addresses transcendence and transformation in simplistic ways, celebrating an old-fashioned, maddeningly generic notion of humanity. 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z The kids are a generic assortment of moppet thugs, often letting their dance battles spill over into tweenage violence. 'Battlefield America': OK dance-offs, bad movie 2012-06-01T18:44:04Z “Not the generic stuff, neither”: a drug stash on “The Walking Dead” contains some seemingly familiar contents. ArtsBeat Blog: Did 'The Walking Dead' Cook Up a 'Breaking Bad' Reference? 2011-10-24T12:52:06Z PG: To me, the best thing about your shows is how specific the worlds are — no generic network junk. Table For Three: Allison Williams and Cynthia Nixon Talk About ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex and the City’ 2014-01-17T20:33:07Z On `Scandal,'" he says, "I wanted to avoid playing a generic TV president. Tony Goldwyn rules as a cheating chief executive 2013-02-19T13:20:12Z She had signed her first record deal at age fifteen, and her first album was a successful experiment in generic teen-R. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Each of them worked on both shallow, effective club fodder — with blippy stereo-hopping synthesizers and generic titles like “Girl Gone Wild” and “Turn Up the Radio” — and songs that venture toward the personal. Critic?s Notebook: ?MDNA,? Madonna?s 12th Studio Album 2012-03-26T18:12:55Z One thing that stands out in the show is a pretty consistently spare, basic, even generic or primitive approach from a number of firms, especially in terms of form-making. Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee on the Chicago Architecture Biennial and how 'newness becomes a disease' 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “The generic mantle of ‘mixed’ felt empowering but also weightless,” she writes. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Phoebe really liked it because up until she tells that story, her character had been a pretty generic girlfriend — this gave her a secret. Joe Dante: ‘Gremlins’ Director Reflects on His Biggest Hits 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z He was among the first to realize that criticism in its purest form—beyond generic limitations—is neither evaluation nor explication, but classification and nomenclature. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z “I didn’t notice any lacking gender or race analysis in it because this story is so old and generic good vs. evil, you know?” How ‘Lord of the Rings’ Became ‘Star Wars’ for Millennial Women 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The products were small and looked generic, with stick-on labels. A Look at Budget Boutique Swag 2010-06-22T19:01:00Z They’re in an alley behind a strip club on a wintry day in the sad, generic town where they grew up. ‘On the Count of Three’ Review: Friends to the End 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to know if it was a genderist bias or if it was just generic for an actor, because neither one is famous for reverence,” she tells me. Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The quality isn't always high: the first half is scrappy, and there's much generic mockery of local towns, as well as duff gags like the one about his brother's reaction to Manford's hypochondria. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z Gone is the panache, the commitment to his songs that enabled him to pull off the most ludicrous poses; in their place are perfunctory performances and generic posturing. The-Dream: IV Play – review 2013-06-06T21:45:01Z My dad would trek to the store every year to find her a few bags of frozen, chopped onions, some generic white bread and eggs and milk. Honoring my dad with my mom's Thanksgiving stuffing 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “I was a generic parent grieving a generic child lost to an inexplicable tragedy. Already there were three clichés.” A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z But as the critters "skitter through a couple of acts' worth of noisy, tediously generic action … you'll have to appreciate what fleeting cleverness you can." 'Minions': Cute critters better off as second bananas, reviews say 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The question is what they’ll be given to do going forward, beyond generic relationship material, domestic comedy and the occasional action set piece. Television Review: ?Terra Nova? on Fox Has Spielberg Touch ? Review 2011-09-25T19:38:19Z I thought the choice of lead character was a moronic, old-fashioned thing to do – pick a generic white character who’s supposed to be corn-fed . Gay-rights activists give their verdict on Stonewall: 'This film is no credit to the history it purports to portray' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z A section of his new show is devoted to just such "men do this, women do that" banter, which is diverting but generic. Ed Byrne ? review 2011-03-20T17:49:00Z Viewed collectively, even its lineups form a generic, apolitical group. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But it was the first, and still one of the few, FX shows that wasn't built around crime, cops, sports or other generic hooks. After seven seasons, "Rescue Me" ends with a cough and a smile 2011-09-08T02:01:00Z Peltz is the generic blonde, around only to get into trouble — here, by an alien abduction. REVIEW: "Transformers: Age of Extinction" Is Bot-Sh*t Crazy 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The effect of the literal trains and the physical doors is to revivify concepts that are so much a part of popular consciousness that they have become abstract, almost generic. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It is basically a generic Bai “old white moderate hope” profile. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z "Last Knights," as generic as it is, is nevertheless a Boys Club. 'Last Knights' a pale 'Game of Thrones' wannabe 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Censors are unlikely to permit such scenes for Malaysian audiences, who are accustomed to bland, generic comedies and romances. Gay-themed film challenges boundaries in Malaysia 2010-04-08T07:01:00Z For half of the running time she's playing your generic damsel in distress and is understandably useless in that situation – well wouldn't you be? Doctor Who: Journey to the Centre of the Tardis – series 33, episode 10 2013-04-27T18:15:01Z Instead of offering an incisive or critical contrast with the creamily generic audiovisual work of Lee Gates’s broadcast, the movie of “Money Monster” proves continuous with it. Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z I bought generic fertility drugs from Spain through a British online pharmacy. Motherlode Blog: Freezing Eggs, and Hoarding My Fertility 2014-01-26T13:37:49Z The gray-haired Cornell-trained psychiatrist has a gentle, serious manner, and his appearance, together with the generic shrink décor of his office — leather couch, granite-topped coffee table — makes this pronouncement seem particularly jarring. Remembrances of Lives Past 2010-08-27T20:58:00Z Most of the supporting cast is passable and generic. | 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying': Wizard of Corporate Climbing 2011-03-28T02:00:00Z It is often beautiful, especially when Findlay and Tennick twine their echoing voices, though the lyrics are mostly generic, with evocations of light and dark and land and sea and song. ‘Islander’ Review: Two Young Women Lost and Found at Sea 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Scenes are inserted to round out the generic story arc in what is otherwise an imaginatively daring piece. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But Taro never becomes more than a generic machine pol, and the show’s politics are shallow, the city’s Muslim population represented mostly by cartoonish street thugs. Review: ‘Marseille’ Proves That American Cable Clichés Are Easy Exports 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z We are now into one of those constantly ascending generic club tracks that forever delays release. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z In contrast, the “Cultivated Landscape” section reveals that Munch’s painterly realism could become generic when he turned to farm animals, like horses. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In sketching out the couple’s world, Calarco sometimes emphasizes the more generic dimensions of their situation. Play inspired by rabbi and his fake torahs misses its mark 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Its trailer, focusing on generic horror tropes, did nothing to quell fears. Comic-Con match-ups: Who won? 2010-07-26T05:46:00Z The bad news is that this book about genre is — pun intended, I suppose — sometimes generic. ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t look out of place as generic decoration in a children’s playground. Art Review: ‘Lightness of Being’ Group Show at City Hall Park 2013-08-22T22:01:07Z The menu is a lot of fried snacks followed by mainstream American comfort food, while the blue-tinged interior is of the generic variety you see on soap operas. After 70 years, Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse remains a haven 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z That might sound a bit generic, but Park’s work is not. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z At one generic desk feebly personalized with a plant and pictures, a video playing simultaneously on two computer monitors delves into Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online marketplace where people perform menial tasks for minuscule pay. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Well, this is just generic,” Ms. Wintour says as she flips through a Nice Collective catalog. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Fund Confidential 2012-01-26T17:21:29Z The wines seemed generic to me, well-made but rarely distinctive. 12 Wines From Argentina and Chile to Seek Out 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Vivian Qu’s “Trap Street,” set in an appropriately generic Chinese city, opens unpromisingly with lurching tone and broad acting, but flips midway when its protagonist accidentally stumbles on a secret government facility. Critic’s Notebook: New Directors/New Films Highlights Include ‘Fish & Cat’ 2014-03-24T22:13:52Z Yet a Google search turned up nothing, which seemed odd, even given the name’s somewhat generic nature. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z As detailed by sociologist Joe Feagin, the white racial frame “is a generic meaning system that rationalizes the system of material oppression.” White America’s death crisis: The pain is real, but our perception is warped by the “racial frame” 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Much of the episode, however, felt generic, cursorily plotted and filled out with thin and unconvincing characters. Review: The Return of Elliot Stabler 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z One letdown: "Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra," which has something oddly generic about its guitar sound. What our writers love this week 2011-04-27T22:30:06Z Religious extremism is sometimes hinted at, but most bad guys are generic gangsters or drug smugglers. Defying the Taliban, one (bad) movie at a time 2010-06-19T16:02:00Z As the centuries wore on, the circle evolved into a revolving platform, the horses evolved into horse statues and the generic metal ring became the fabled brass ring. All the Pretty Horses! A Carousel at Art Basel 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z I think that's what "The Simpsons" wanted to be when it started, sort of a big generic American story. “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss: “The Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Now MTV's "reality" shows are a bunch of generic good looking people that just date each other and get in bar fights. MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In the “Grease” you likely know from Broadway or Hollywood, the party for Frenchie, the beauty school dropout, at the end of Act 1 takes place in a generic park. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z I was anxious because what I'd been given with these netsuke was far, far more interesting than a generic set of anecdotes. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z From here, the story veers into a generic caper, stacked with evil villains, kindly allies and mischief. ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ Review: Fetch Me if You Can 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The AC-12 officers – especially Adrian Dunbar’s Ted Hastings – had slipped their slightly generic beginnings and returned sharper drawn and better defined. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z But it all seems a bit logy and unreal, as if, like the Remnant with their white garb and silence, The Leftovers made its suffering too generic and surrendered its voice. REVIEW: The Leftovers Hurts, So Good 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The ones in the stores are fairly generic, so short of going to an actual farm, I would suggest a butcher shop in order to get the best quality bird. This Thanksgiving's main course might be something other than turkey 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The other key difference is, rather than focus on booted contestants' often relatively generic self-reflections, the "Mansplain" is quite literally all about snitching. On “FBoy Island,” the feminist “Mansplain” puts an end to “bros before hoes” 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The tenor Jean-Michel Richer sang with affecting directness and poise, but the music seemed generic, with nothing to make audible the particulars of his suffering. Review: A Look at ‘Léonore’ Before Beethoven, and Others, Got to It 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z A lot of people weighing in on social media said that the label named a very common style of beer in bold letters and was therefore relatively generic. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z "Pop should make you feel alive," she tells the BBC - but warns a glut of "generic" tracks, written by committee, are threatening to kill it off. Marina: 'Co-writing is killing pop' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Many of the drugs are generic, sterile injectable medications, such as cytarabine, a key treatment forleukemia, or fluorouracil, for colon and other cancers. Lawmakers probe pharmacy ties to drug shortages 2012-03-22T11:20:00Z The contestants were originally expected to compete in a teen idol themed week, but the song list was changed to a more generic Billboard hits selection, Fox said. Miley Cyrus mentors "American Idol" singers 2010-03-22T18:54:00Z It still looks and feels entirely original, despite its obvious generic inspirations. The Coen brothers’ films – ranked! 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Deluded, washed-up, twisted, alcoholic, she is also – it almost goes without saying, given Hollywood's stereotypes – a blocked writer, the movie taking its title from the generic novels she produces. Who would want to be an author in film? 2012-02-09T18:28:20Z Mr. Pattinson is only partly to blame for the fatuity of a character who even in the novel is really a generic male ingénue with no personality. | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z They have the generic smoothness of the art you might see in a posh hotel room, or the end papers of a first edition. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It seemed like the generic voice that we heard through the television. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s not an original thought, action, character or situation in between the big, expensive and generic effects. ‘R.I.P.D.’ deserves to get ripped 2013-07-19T18:37:28Z As a sender of wishes to others, I would find that disappointingly generic and rather impersonal. Perspective | Miss Manners: Replying to online birthday wishes 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z This “secret location,” unlike the atmospheric Dublin site in the video, is fairly generic. Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Ms. Stone is fighting an uphill battle against a generic screenplay. Review: Sharon Stone Stars in ‘All I Wish,’ a Lukewarm Romantic Comedy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It's some generic, a small city in Oklahoma, Tulsa or someplace smaller than Tulsa. "The Outsider": Crafting Stephen King's suburban horror despite a New York state of mind 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It just sent generic responses that were even more infuriating. A customer has a visa problem with American Airlines that costs thousands of dollars. Who should pay? | Travel Troubleshooter 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Though its subtitle, “A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,” always called attention to those horrors, and temporary exhibitions were typically about suffering during World War II, the museum’s identity seemed generic — about culture, not loss. The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The results—slide shows with voice-overs and the obligatory generic music that clues you in that it’s a Web doc—will be released in batches of twenty over the next year. Cultural Clicks: Madeline Kahn, Kimmy Schmidt and More 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Last week Bollywood star Aamir Khan criticized doctors for prescribing costly branded medicines and argued that generics are just as good. Huevos de austeridad 2012-06-26T14:27:00Z In order to standardize the experiment, I needed to commit a generic crime. Books of The Times: ?Elliot Allagash,? Tale of a Bully, by Simon Rich 2010-06-14T23:08:00Z You'd have to be David Cameron to find anything fresh in this generic teen tripe with social networking references shoehorned in. This week's new films 2012-06-01T23:05:45Z So, we'll end up with all sorts of products in plain packaging with the product name in a generic typeface – as the government is currently discussing for cigarettes. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Fortunately, Golden’s characters have more depth than the sometimes generic window-dressing around them. ‘Wherever There Is Light’ review: A tale of lovers caught in history 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z What’s more, it convinces us that hip-hop and its generic cousins embody the cocky, restless spirit of self-determination that birthed the American independence movement. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The records were generic R&B, with no distinct style, and attracted almost no attention. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z After all, high-pressure laminate, the generic term for a product that’s often called by one trade name, Formica, gets its look from a printed photograph that’s topped by durable, clear plastic. How to replace damaged laminate on an old bedroom furniture set 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Hunnam is a tad on the generic, nondescript side, especially compared to King Arthur’s nemesis, played by the emphatically non-generic Jude Law, who upstages the putative star of the movie at every turn. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z And meanwhile we have these generic 40% waste statistics of food going into the garbage. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z A generic tough guy steals a car, shoots a policeman, sweet-talks a series of women, hobnobs with his underworld pals and tries to stay a step ahead of the dogged detectives on his trail. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z In Week 1176 we asked for a humorous line for someone’s obituary — and the person could be real or fictional, specific or generic, living or not. Style Invitational: Strip search — play off a line of text in a comic strip 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The rest of the booklet is full of generic advice. Alice Roberts: Why are Bounty reps allowed on maternity wards? 2013-04-27T23:01:03Z Sure, there are a handful of options under a pasta heading, but such terms as “mezze,” “antipasti” or “tapas” are jettisoned in favor of more generic categories like snacks, small and large plates. Nido review: A bright perch in a hungry neighborhood 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z In one gallery, “Scatter Piece” consists of stuff from Mr. Franco’s actual childhood room strewn about in familiar disarray; some smaller cultural tableaus are equally generic. Art Review: James Franco?s ?Dangerous Book? of Art 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z Telling of his own heedless youthful romance, he seemed so emotionally blank that the story felt generic. Mike Daisey on Shakespeare and His Own Failings 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z So far, a pretty generic setup for a murder mystery. ‘A Circle of Wives’: three wives, one murder 2014-03-13T20:16:42Z Pressed to describe his taste in food, Trump invariably ticks off generic pasta and beef. The world is Trump’s oyster, but he prefers Filet-O-Fish 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But what’s really most ridiculous about “Batman v Superman” is its lugubrious solemnity and generic philosophizing. ‘Deadpool’ Isn’t the Only Solution. But ‘Batman v Superman’ Is the Problem 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z So if that happened, at least we’d be able to laugh about it instead of opening up something generic and it fails and we cry.” Will Ferrell bar owners: 'It had to be something really stupid' 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It is hard, in this severe winter of our own, to connect Tchaikovsky's subtitle, Winter Daydreams, with much of the music in a symphony that, for all its unmistakable authorship, is at times generic. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2011-01-19T18:19:11Z All of the performers are skilled singers and actors, filling in the generic contours of their characters with proficient professionalism. Review: ‘Holiday Inn’: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Recycled Movie 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The image is generic: Printed pictures of overflowing fruit baskets circulated widely in 19th-century America. ‘A Shared Legacy,’ at the American Folk Art Museum 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Arden addresses this by keeping the ensemble as particular as possible, never letting it devolve into vague masses making generic gestures. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Publicists teased that words might flow during the after-party at Second, a generic event space on Sixth Avenue with lots of colorful lasers. 50 Cent Hosts a Rap Concert for ‘Power’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z By contrast, the people in "Prometheus" are so generic, and in many cases downright dislikable, that you can't wait for them to have their way-too-close encounters of an alien kind. Michael Fassbender brightens alien world of 'Prometheus' 2012-06-06T17:15:04Z In 2000, a federal court ruled that the term is generic. Piloxing, an Exercise Class that Uses Pilates, Boxing and Dance Gains Popularity 2014-03-04T22:32:38Z But the story, in which a hot-tempered runaway largely builds character through fight training, is generic. Movie Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In the past two decades Mr. Oppenheim turned to smaller, less elaborate pieces whose all-purpose, rather coarsely made forms were generic and instantly legible. Dennis Oppenheim, a Pioneer in Earthworks and Conceptual Art, Dies at 72 2011-01-27T04:30:03Z Keaton’s crazy eyebrows are put to good use as the on-the-edge mentor, but it is a somewhat baffling choice for him: the movie is undeniably generic for an actor who has always eschewed straightforward genre. Michael Keaton: ‘There was a lot of bad taste in the 90s and I contributed to that’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The new album is a return to lucidity after the sometimes generic blues-rock and haphazard lyrics of “Mojo.” New Music From Tom Petty, Shawn Mendes and Hermán Olivera 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z For one thing, the badly-behaved American male under the microscope this time out is even more generic than usual, albeit by design. Redemption is short-lived in Neil LaBute's 'Break of Noon' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In a sense, especially when the temperature drops below normal, it is a generic endurance piece with a Gilmore sense of color and eye for detail. Art Review: Kate Gilmore?s ?Walk the Walk? in Bryant Park 2010-05-11T23:04:00Z All 24 items, the affidavit said, were sold to Mr. Lotfi using “fabricated or overly generic provenance.” Investigators Say Collector Had Suspect Art and Lots of Chutzpah 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z It was four pages long, typed in a generic font, and included both a toxicology report and an extensive description of the autopsy itself. I may have caused my father's death 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z There is something abstract and generic about the emotional abuse the siblings suffered at the hands of their obnoxious father and passive mother. Books of The Times: ?Carry the One,? a Novel by Carol Anshaw 2012-03-12T21:38:55Z And now it seems India is considering offering generic drugs for free to patients at government-run clinics. Huevos de austeridad 2012-06-26T14:27:00Z But she clearly never listened, because in 2006 she made this entirely generic vanity project of a music biopic with her new husband, Marc Anthony. The best and the worst Jennifer Lopez films – ranked 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Only the generic is there, in a disgruntled pose. Artist of the week 108: Keith Farquhar 2010-10-06T15:50:00Z In those days, when an accent seemed required at all, a kind of generic funny-foreigner-speak was often considered sufficient. Gambit gabble: what actors' accents lack 2012-11-26T16:46:43Z Good news for the show’s haters: season 5 of Girls resolves the angsty cloud that has long swirled around the series by making it, more than ever, something generic. Review: In Season 5, Girls Becomes a Traditional Sitcom 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Birtwistle's Violin Concerto is one of his few works with a neutral, purely generic title; it was composed for Christian Tetzlaff, who plays it in the BBC Symphony's concert on 7 September. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z This Victor lives in New Holland, a generic American suburb with neatly trimmed hedges and split-level houses, where the moms are housewives and the kids play Little League and work on their science fair projects. Movie Review: ‘Frankenweenie,’ Tim Burton’s Homage to Horror Classics 2012-10-05T00:09:14Z After an episode exposed rampant medical malpractice and championed giving cheap, generic medicine to millions of India's poor, Khan was invited to address a Parliament hearing on health care. A movie star makes India confront its taboos 2012-07-23T11:43:12Z A Rhone style blend is very different than a Cab based blend and the generic term blend does nothing to inform me what is in the bottle other than wine. Don’t Judge a Wine by the Grape on Its Label 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Brand-name drugs typically cost more than generics and are more heavily advertised. Your doctor is ripping you off: The truth about brand-name medications 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z That was also her first use of a mannequin as a generic stand-in for humanity. Reimagining Lady Liberty’s Torch to Meet This Moment 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Stylistically his music might be described as sub-Frank Wildhorn, meaning gobs of generic melody and lyrics stuffed with romantic and inspirational clichés, with dollops of ersatz gospel, all ready made for belting by large voices. Music Review: Playing a Jukebox Full of Show Tunes 2011-07-08T21:06:41Z The study hypothesis was simple: In counties characterized by strong Republican voting or religiosity, generics and new products would fare considerably worse at the checkout counter than established brands. Conservatives and liberals drink different beer 2013-02-27T16:32:00Z The program’s sole premiere, Emery LeCrone’s “Opus 19. Andante,” is an entirely generic Romantic duet. Daniel Ulbricht Leads City Ballet Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z She looked at me again, then said, “I’ll take the generic.” Modern Love: Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich 2011-05-05T21:28:33Z Her glamazons address fierceness and femininity in generic terms; you hope that she will return, at some point, to the individuality and emotional intelligence of portraiture. Mickalene Thomas: ‘Tête de Femme’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “It’s really hard to talk about your job in generic terms.” A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction 2013-07-05T20:44:12Z An emblem of the lover or the mother left behind, she is the generic movie woman of war who embodies the prize that must be protected, which also makes her a rationalization for the fight. ‘Beanpole’ Review: The War Has Ended. Their Fight Is Endless. 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z In portraying Richard almost satirically as a generic materialist, shopping at Whole Foods and worrying about property values, does he mean to propose that he is enacting a new stereotype? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z The imaginative use of percussion evoked faraway galaxies with more subtlety than the sometimes generic images of outer space featured in the production, otherwise effectively directed by Nancy Rhodes. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z That's become the generic lead, the shorthand way to introduce a discussion of her work. Joyce Carol Oates on memory and personality: An interview 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z One of these was generic and modern, at least by 50s standards, offering fruit gums, packaged chocolate and Wrigley's chewing gum. Tony Judt: My London 2010-08-13T23:05:00Z Sadly, The Karate Kid won't be able to participate in the operation because it doesn't involve kicking a boy in the head once at the end of a drearily generic film. We were holding out for a hero ? then three turned up at once 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z But Mr. Platt’s remarkable performance instantly scrubs free any trace of the generic. Review: In ‘Dear Evan Hansen,’ a Lonely Teenager, a Viral Lie and a Breakout Star 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Why hire the versatile Stuhlbarg to play a generic heavy who shows up a few minutes an episode to brood about payback? Review: In ‘Your Honor,’ a Dark Cable Premise Breaks Worse 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z When we were thinking about building a restaurant, it was a time, this was like 16 years ago maybe, it was a time where there was lots of generic restaurants. Will Joe Beef survive the apocalypse? 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z This narrative of survival and cultural flourishing is an essential counterpoint to the painful facts of the past, but it threatens to become generic, a “happy ending” motif in the feel-good vein of Hollywood. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Remember the pleasingly generic smell of a bustling lobby? New Best Sellers Run the Gamut From Escapist to Galvanizing 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z However, Pinter's own medium is notably tolerant towards the generic equivalent – theatre about theatre. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z Next was a generic white male host behind a desk to her right, a familiar face, she said pointedly, for audiences to look to when things get uncomfortable. Sarah Silverman Wants to Pop Your Bubble 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z "At the beginning, the role was written as a generic assistant who was eager to please and very Kennedy-esque," said Bergen. 'Madam Secretary' actor Erich Bergen moonlights in cabaret 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The results did show variability in the release rates, but both the generic and branded products released the majority of the ibuprofen within 45 minutes. Do branded painkillers work better than cheaper generic ones? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But just because you make a generic shape in a provocative material does not mean the garment itself is provocative. Magical Thinking at Céline and Comme des Garçons 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Roslyn Sulcas wrote in The New York Times that both the ballet and the score were “so competently generic” that there was almost nothing to say. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z Unfortunately, the characters are conveyed in dumb generic shorthand and have so few idiosyncrasies that the writing staff might as well have dispensed with names altogether. "The Cape": Why can't TV do superheroes? 2011-01-06T20:50:00Z The thing that Jepsen does best—the blissfully generic pop song—had backed her into a corner. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Apart from some very spiffy visual effects, which create coherent, scary outer-space textures and architecture, Green Lantern is the most generic of summer time-wasters. Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero 2011-06-16T15:55:00Z The book is chock-full of tips and action plans, both generic and idiosyncratic. On Top of the Happiness Racket 2010-02-26T23:31:00Z We’ve got a lot of generic drugs available that are OK. Why 'big pharma' stopped searching for the next Prozac 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Sheeran’s lawyers argue that the chords are generic building blocks and are fair game for any musician. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Foster, still visibly hampered by her leg injury, sounded a little generic herself, although she looked terrific and sang her highest notes with a gleam that glinted promise for “Twilight of the Gods.” After ‘Ring’ rehearsal injury, a soprano finally gets her U.S. debut 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Most of the complaints center around the corporate-centric nature of Fearless Girl, which was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors as a generic promotion of the idea of women in leadership. Fearless Girl must go: It’s a tourist attraction and an appealing fantasy — but a terrible symbol for feminism 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Qualitatively these ranks somewhere between the "Mission: Impossible" franchise and generic action movie fare. "John Wick: Chapter 3" is easy to like, but hard to love 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z You arrive at the Greenbrier expecting the grand resort clichés: the generic food, the hidden fees, the Muzak. The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. 2010-08-14T04:58:00Z The kouri did, too; so generic, in fact, that they seemed barely human. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z Is it the most generic movie poster ever? Is The Adjustment Bureau film poster the stupidest ever? 2011-03-14T10:05:33Z But Ms. Carey’s participation makes the generic badness of “A Christmas Melody” a touch better than its neighbors. Mariah Carey’s List Is Short: All She Wants Is Immortality 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Just recently I tried to convince Dave that coming home with a pallet of Claussen pickles was a bit of an overreaction to me purchasing the generic brand the night before. Dear David’s Wife, Can You Diagnose My Husband, Too? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z But partly because they were pre-written for a different context — or for no context — and partly because they tend to cycle through one generic emotion, they make character development difficult. Can Critics Learn to Love the Jukebox Musical? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z But generic is not always your best bet. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z The vocalist Mellissa Hughes sang sultry melodic lines with generic lyrics: “And when I hear you call my name, the birds stop singing,” and such. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z Other pieces are even more generic, especially some dozen 19-inch red earth spheres that conjure viruses, soccer balls and ritual objects. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint. Critic’s Notebook: Soderbergh Explores a New Medium 2013-05-01T21:34:35Z She settles on a slightly generic note of sober uplift, though there’s no hiding the crushing sadness implicit in at least some of the stories. Television Review: ‘All of Me,’ an Obesity Documentary on PBS 2014-03-23T22:42:24Z Gianotten describes the stock exchange as a deliberately "generic tower"; these enormous rooms, crafted with a blunt corporate hand, make you wonder if OMA has taken that idea a little too far. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z On the rental agreement, there’s a form to list previous damage, but it’s a bit generic. Accepting a rental car with with preexisting damage gets renter charged $503 | Travel Troubleshooter 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z If you need a pain reliever, grab yourself the generic brand and save a buck. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z Lester's is chunky, white meat only,with generic mayo but works fine with any additions. Regaining Chicken Salad’s Dignity, Any Time of Day 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Despite revolving around a family of murderers, its domestic claustrophobia is hardly generic British crime twaddle. Ben Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy' 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z Thunder and lightning – of the variety associated with generic dark and stormy nights – figure in “Bracken Moor,” Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play at the Tricycle Theater. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z It’s Christmastime, and every now and then a fragment of “Jingle Bell Rock” interrupts the generic pumped-up soundtrack. Movie Review: Ethan Hawke Runs Down Everything in Sight in ‘Getaway’ 2013-08-29T22:11:48Z One concerned intellectual property rights controlling the use of generic medications around the world. Bill Clinton’s LGBT shame: Where was he then? 2014-02-01T17:30:00Z She would ask me questions, but it was mostly just very generic sorts of things, like what’s your favorite food. Date Lab: Is it true that opposites attract? 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Some sections sounded like busywork — passages generated to meet generic structural proportions but without any real creative impetus. Familiar with their music and with each other 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He is, however, essentially writing off the “matures,” those older than baby boomers who favor generic wines of no distinction other than their alcoholic potency. U.S. wine’s worries for 2017: Who’s picking the grapes, who’s buying 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z There's no heartfelt bond between the generic main characters, no emotional drive or pithy observations about life and high school. 'High School': At least Brody's talent isn't wasted in stoner comedy 2012-05-31T20:18:04Z The love story within “Elf” also isn’t well served here, having been pared down considerably to make room for all the generic holiday songs. Theater Review: ‘Elf,’ Starring Jordan Gelber, at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z "From China to Brazil, these projects attempt to provide as many houses as possible but they're completely generic." Moment of Friday: Jeff Allsbrook digs Iwan Baan's TED Talk on DIY design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Maybe the imported lighting felt flat and generic, but we are spoilt in Britain by the array of talent in this under-appreciated aspect of stagecraft. Cendrillon; Rinaldo ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:30Z I attributed my dating failures to generic incompatibility and the inestimable shortcomings of the male sex. Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z McAllister:“Heartfelt,” because it’s the sort of generic review word you could apply to literally any book. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Figuring out that page-turning quality is tougher than it looks” 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z What comes in between is sometimes interesting, often generic, with a few decent songs among the will-this-do numbers. Cheryl Cole: A Million Lights – review 2012-06-14T14:29:01Z Cherry and Nat don’t speak about the uprising until it has already begun, and what Cherry says is so banal and generic that it might as well not have been said. The Cinematic Merits and Flaws of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The pitch, delivered in a generic email, was impersonal and formulaic. TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too. 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z He works in the accounting department of a company that is as generic as everything else in “The Art of Self-Defense,” a wobbly sort-of satire written and directed by Riley Stearns. ‘The Art of Self-Defense’ Review: Karate Empowers a Dweeb 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That means, though, that countering with generic toys is really not enough. Motherlode: Banning Barbie 2011-04-25T17:20:05Z But almost halfway into a 10-episode season, “Castle Rock” hasn’t made the case that you should care, beyond a generic sense of spooky mystery — or, maybe, a pre-existing attachment to the Stephen King Extended Universe. Review: ‘Castle Rock’ Is Too Haunted by Its Past 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “Air Canada finally came back with a generic response that cited ‘safety concerns,’” she said. Are Astronaut-Style Face Shields the Future of P.P.E.? 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The action scenes, by contrast, are visually uninteresting, borderline generic and unnecessary. Angelina Jolie Stars in ‘Maleficent,’ From Disney 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Much has been written about how disappointing romantic comedies have become in the past few years, but has anyone noticed how cryptically generic their titles are? The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z Unfortunately, most of her early singles were generic ravey dance-pop, and her brief set Saturday didn’t offer any new twists on that. Fiesta Latina charts a pop future with Pitbull, Jesse y Joy and more 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z In the case of these products, the simplicity of the packaging seems to align with customers' beliefs that generic brands invest less in the quality of their products. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Without news bulletins and interviews from the time, the programme wrestles to be aurally evocative – there's generic gunfire, sad pipes – and I must say I found that charming. Radio review: The Sinking of the Lancastria 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z “The identical and/or striking similarity of ‘Sorry’ to Plaintiff’s song ‘Ring the Bell’ surpasses the realm of generic coincidence and independent creation,” the legal complaint, which was obtained by EW, reads. Justin Bieber and Skrillex Have Been Sued Over 'Sorry' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z When Mr. Rosenthal turns to geometry, with spirals prevailing in numerous forms, the results are especially generic. Art Review: ‘Jewels by JAR,’ Joel Arthur Rosenthal, at the Met Museum 2013-12-26T22:08:45Z Bamigboye gave each of these complex sculptures the generic title of “Atofojowo,” meaning “you can look at it for a whole day.” Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z There’s an appealing, if generic, bohemian murkiness to the photographs of women taken in Minneapolis in 1975 by Deborah Bell, a former Chelsea art dealer who is now head of the photographs department at Christie’s. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z You’ve heard a lot of generic one-liners involving amusing children and clueless husbands, some of them pretty funny but none of them especially illuminating. Review: ‘One Funny Mother’ Delivers One-Liners Without Depth 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The sidewalks of the walled city are blanketed with generic handicrafts. 36 Hours in Cartagena, Colombia 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z King’s woods were generic, and the little girl’s thoughts, feelings, and sensations, while sometimes plausible, lacked authenticity and singularity. My Stephen King problem 2012-07-06T14:42:00Z A generic parallel drama involving the girls’ mothers, panicked when they lose contact with their kids, waters down a narrative that already splits its attention between four characters. ‘Summering’ Review: The Besties Confront Bittersweet Truths 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z There was nothing generic about the beauty of her singing. Two Major Met Opera Arrivals, Just 15 Hours Apart 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “We have Plan B and a generic,” he said. Modern Love: Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich 2011-05-05T21:28:33Z Finally, they found it, a modest shrine to the building’s previous life as one of the most famous high schools in American film: a handful of generic artifacts in an old trophy case. The Teen Streets of John Hughes’s Chicago 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z On the evidence that Ms. Oates presents, very few people knew what to say about her husband, beyond expressing generic respect and sorrow. Books Of the Times: The Shock Of Losing A Spouse 2011-02-14T05:27:15Z Mr. Posen’s collection was also a bit generic: a glamorous romp of feathers, sheer, slithery dresses and plume-tipped stilettos. Fashion Review: In Paris, Designers Hit the Redial Button 2010-09-30T23:10:00Z On the floor is an array of nondescript objects, including bottles and rough abstract sculptures made of painted foam blocks; a generic, brushy abstract painting hangs on the wall. Art Review: Trisha Baga at the Whitney, Greene Naftali and MoMA PS1 2012-12-27T22:07:57Z That certainly fits: he's very much your generic, mass-produced bear, made from lower-quality synthetic plush, with plastic eyes and nose. A teddy bear manufacturer's view on Ted 2012-08-19T17:00:01Z Which is not to suggest that there is anything generic or imprecise about the film. ‘Jealousy’: a blue romantic tale filmed in shades of gray 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z And in his scenes with these children he shows both pushy, rude playfulness and generosity, helping the young performers rise above generic movie-brat cuteness and earn some laughs on their own. | 'Just Go With It': The Road to True Love Is Paved With a Whole Lot of Lying 2011-02-11T01:47:46Z As trailers go, this could not have been more generic if it had just been a close-up of a flag fluttering in the breeze. House of Cards's Spacey-less final season trailer: Netflix plays it safe 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z And, since you didn’t ask, the proper response to someone who sees these genuine yet safely generic expressions of sympathy as condescending or judgmental or somehow more grating particularly to men is “Huh?” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Giving the cold shoulder after being treated like a pain in the neck 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z They claimed that the term was "so widely used in the D.C. area that it has become generic," but the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board disagreed. The story of mambo (or mumbo) sauce, the condiment that likely fueled the civil rights movement 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z Next year comes a film he made with James McAvoy and Mark Strong, Welcome to the Punch – a London-based crime thriller already being talked about as a step up from generic gangster films. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z “Besides being really generic and uncreative, they are usually too big for small spaces.” Small-space design: Five common mistakes and how to fix them Name brands tend to be packaged in airless pumps, and generic brands in tubes, she said. How Anti-Aging Creams Get Old Too Fast 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Other writers are exposing the way that Westerns frequently feature Native and immigrant characters as generic villains or victims, if they appear at all. With a Chinese American Gunslinger, He’s Challenging the Whiteness of Westerns 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z “All we need is real, authentic ballroom — generic doesn’t fit with this show,” said Ms. Polanco, formerly a mother of the House of Ninja. Executive Realness: 3 ‘Pose’ Stars on Dancing and Being Seen 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Will this be another play about, as Lee says, a “generic angry young Black man”? A story that meets the expectations of a mostly white audience and transforms Black trauma into a commodity? Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z This high-toned rhetoric is followed by more generic sloganeering. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z My destination, the North Corner Sandwich Shop, was easy to miss, what with its generic sign plopped on the sidewalk as if it were announcing a flea market. A $50 Day in Knoxville, Tennessee 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Early work she showed in Paris included a feathery, pastel-colored portrait of a woman with a generic, cotton-candy lightness borrowed from her impressionist forebears. Review | Was the founder of modern Brazilian art a friendly cannibal? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But mine’s not generic, it’s tailored; it’s not shrink-wrapped, it’s interactive and online.” What’s the secret to learning a second language? 2012-10-27T12:30:00Z The strange thing about The Family is that, given the set up, it’s incredibly generic. The Family: ABC's buzzed about thriller is an intriguing but generic imposter 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z It occasionally slips past the spare into the plain or the generic, and from there to the intentionally or ironically banal. Boring architecture? Yes, please 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z And if you can’t see it, if every image seems to be a dissonant, a one-time-only disruption of a generic landscape, then it can go on forever. Perspective | What perpetual war looks like in America 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z TV One calls itself “the network dedicated to black viewers,” but the premiere was disappointingly generic. Review: ‘Here We Go Again,’ a Tradition of Teenage Moms 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z With a smirk and a raised eyebrow, Mr. Goldblum succeeds in giving his generic character a gentle, sardonic charm. | 'The Switch': Jennifer Aniston Stars in Tale of Fatherhood Mix-Up 2010-08-19T23:53:00Z There are too many exceptions to the rules, too much particularity in each case, for such evidence-based generic approaches to be useful. 9 blind spots most therapists share 2014-03-17T00:00:00Z Not knowing what he would do with the footage, he used an intentionally generic setup like those used on newsmagazine shows. 'The Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki knows the milieu of Robert Durst 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z But over all there’s a generic quality to the characters, as written, that is probably beyond the scope of an actor to correct. Review: ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ the Broadway Musical 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z He is vague and even a little generic: all masculine appetite. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Festival directors say they will change the events into generic celebrations of magic. Harry rotters: Warner Bros cracks down on Potter fan festivals in US 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The more likely explanation, alas, is that "Joker" is so generic in its message that audiences of all persuasions can read whatever they want into it. "Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy, and these better but snubbed films prove it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s a generic question that breeds generic answers, and doesn’t really give you additional insight into who I am. The Worst Questions Women Get When Online Dating 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The album is filled with competent, if somewhat generic, pop tracks produced by a team of top-tier producers including Pharrell Williams and Dr. Luke. 8 Life Lessons We Learned from Listening to the New Miley Cyrus Album 2013-10-01T19:51:27Z Spider’s own first tattoo, acquired at Coney Island when he was 14, was a simple “Mom,” and over the years he did plenty of “Moms” and butterflies and other generic tattoos. Spider Webb, Tattoo Artist With a Defiant Streak, Dies at 78 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Numerous studies show that generics, which must meet rigid Food and Drug Administration standards, work as well as name brands for most patients. Your doctor is ripping you off: The truth about brand-name medications 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z But then, there is nothing generic about this adventurous musician. Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Crosley determines that his cautionary wisdom is both totally generic and entirely true; it just often takes longer than we intend for us to accept the advice we’re given. The Essays Are Personal. The Truths Are Universal. 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Regularly using a hydrating deep conditioner is key, too, especially if using the generic drugstore brand of dyes. How to color your hair at home — and common mistakes to avoid 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Almost everyone lives in an impersonal home seemingly decorated by the same depressed interior designer, with muted colors and generic furnishings that turn each dwelling into a showroom. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Most of the action in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is completely generic and video-gamey. TMNT first look review – what the shell is this? 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Over a generic but blistering blues-rock rhythm, the record places Williams in conversation with Chuck Berry and his civil-rights-era anthem “Back in the U.S.A.” The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Most campaign merchandise simply inhabits a generic garment and leaves it unchanged. What Does the MAGA Hat Mean Now? 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “There are a lot of new uses for it. Vintage plates elevate the look of a table setting; it’s not generic yet is affordable,” she says. The dish: Why vintage tableware is making a comeback in restaurants and homes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It has certainly been made for tap dancing, and it’s effectively varied, but it’s generic, as song titles like “Music,” “Heartbeat” and “The Dance” seem to admit. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z “It is, you might say, the generic Pharaoh,” she says. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z And when these programs do suggest non-Western dishes, he added, those may be the more generic ones familiar to Americans, like tandoori chicken. Can A.I. Write Recipes Better Than Humans? We Put It to the Ultimate Test. 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Get past the generic facade and you’ll find an expansive dining room with the obligatory blue-and-white accents but also a fireplace here and a waterfall there. Trapezaria brings real Greek food to the table The other actors struggle to stay on the quirky side of generic. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But the women in this comedy of discomfort too snugly occupy generic roles. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 50/50: Cancer Lite 2011-09-29T06:10:00Z Fair enough, but the point about pronouns is that they replace nouns, and thus trade the specific for the generic — so they will probably catch on only when they are inconspicuous. English’s Pronoun Problem Is Centuries Old 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z "All wonderful writing subverts and transcends generic boundaries, although it is always fun to play the genre game and to stick books into categories," she said. Could Miles Franklin turn the Booker prize to crime? 2010-06-25T12:21:00Z “He” is what suits him best, as a character that lay claim to nothing more specific or constant than the description provided by that most generic of pronouns. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z This may be why the vivid phrase “butt-dial” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and has eclipsed the more generic “pocket dial” to become the standard term, employed even when no butt is involved. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z There is no such thing as a generic dog. Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Because if you start making this for everyone, you’ll end up with something generic. Kristen Stewart on her directing debut: 'The best female film-makers are compulsive freaks' 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z So it is a little confusing to see from photographs in the catalog that Clark also considered some of them models for immense, generic public sculptures. Lygia Clark’s Many Twists and Turns, at MoMA 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Approaching him, a white man in a white T-shirt and jeans, shaven-headed – the generic English lad – lopes, hands shoved into his pockets, deliciously framed by the outline of an old-fashioned red phone box. Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z Even if they cook over wood, will new places serve a generic version of mediocre barbecue? Why North Carolina’s barbecue scene is still smoldering 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z But in “Hogar,” the generic movement, while calling on their virtuosity, also stifles their individuality. Dance Review: Ballet Hispanico Explores Varied Themes at the Joyce 2014-04-23T20:12:54Z “We were unaware the name Thin Mints was an actual title in-use at the time as opposed to being generic description,” the company explained. Girl Scouts Want to Put an End 'Thin Mint' E-Cigs 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z So are the more expensive drugs more effective than their cheaper, generic versions? Do branded painkillers work better than cheaper generic ones? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Opal Court in Leicester, by Stephen George and Partners, might not have been the worst building of 2007, but it was one of many generic housing blocks. Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z There isn’t a strong story tethering Dave, one of those heists or rackets of generic cop stories, but instead a succession of crises, most with no obvious solution. | 'Rampart': ?Rampart,? Starring Woody Harrelson - Review 2011-11-23T00:13:07Z In a landscape full of eccentric voices, his point of view can seem generic. Critic’s Notebook: Jerry Seinfeld Is Still at Home Doing Stand-Up 2012-10-14T21:56:07Z Thereafter, “The Perfect Guy” becomes a generic beauty-and-the-creep movie, with Leah breaking off the relationship but unable to get rid of Carter. Review: In ‘The Perfect Guy,’ a Stalker Is Stirred 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For a casual viewer, the bear cam is enjoyable as a kind of generic nature film: pretty scenery dotted with busy apex predators, enough action to keep you entertained. Bear Cam’s Captivating, Unedited Zen 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z With their generic locations and blurred and hidden faces, Correa’s photos appear to seek universal qualities of city life. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z But the dystopia of the new “Fahrenheit 451,” airing Saturday on HBO, is generic, its critique muddled and its tone as subtle as a flamethrower. Review: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Has Fire and Fury but Sheds Little Light 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Most of the work here feels vapid and generic, not questioning enough the soil and the ground we stand on, be it red, black, white or concrete. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Your boyfriend’s assets look impressive on paper, if a little generic. My boyfriend and I are well matched, but I just don’t fancy him | Dear Mariella 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Less than a year later he was in court, contending that his seizure — and the spasms that he says still plague him — were caused by a faulty generic medication. Generic drugs aren’t necessarily the same 2013-04-24T16:12:00Z They are funky and stylish and a bit generic. Electric Concerts, Mediocre Albums: How Prince Thrives at 56 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z With his nondescript T-shirt, in his generic white-walled office, next to the Ukrainian flag, Mr. Zelensky has combined these two traditions into one. The Man in the Olive Green Tee 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Or rather it has one, but it’s the stiff New Agey dialect of generic high fantasy. Review: This ‘Wheel of Time’ Goes Nowhere Fast 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Yet again, while both acted more quickly that the “standard” versions, there’s no advantage in paying more – the cheap, generic “express” products worked just as quickly as the expensive brands. Do branded painkillers work better than cheaper generic ones? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Rooms — even the most modern and streamlined — look like generic furniture showrooms without stuff. Stylist secrets: How to use what you have to create a cohesive space 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Many of the sculptures on display, the show argues, depict actual individuals, not generic women. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z With a dark, cloudy sky beyond, the picture has a moody atmosphere, but the girl, with her frozen smile, seems generic by comparison to Rembrandt’s. Art Review | 'Masterpieces of European Painting From Dulwich Picture Gallery': At the Frick, Paintings From Dulwich Picture Gallery 2010-04-01T22:51:00Z Since openly political songs are forbidden at Eurovision, some acts are using generic messages of empowerment, like the Ukrainian duo Tvorchi’s song “Heart of Steel,” about bravery. A Guide to Eurovision 2023 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Look at the extreme price increases for many prescribed medications today, and the reported payments to other drug companies to keep generic drugs off the market to protect branded drug sales. Animal Doctor: Two meals a day, but dog remains underweight 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Consumers will buy generic or obscure brands if the cost is lower or the quality rivals that of an established product. Music Review: Chamber Music Society’s Baroque Festival 2013-12-09T21:54:29Z Instead her grids and stripes suggest game boards or paneling — generic forms of abstraction at large in the culture rather than associated with an individual artist. Art Review: ?Sherrie Levine: Mayhem,? at Whitney Museum - Review 2011-11-10T23:15:08Z “That cheapens the places, cheapens the significance of the geographies,” said Garzón, who critiqued the film’s generic setting in an article for Intervenxions, an online publication of the Latinx Project at New York University. ‘Encanto’ May Be Accurate, but Can It Carry a Whole Country? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s handy that Bullock added the word “films” to the end of her banner, because “Fortis” is such a perfectly generic non-word that several other businesses have also picked it as a name. Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver: why do stars give their companies unusual names? 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The title song draws on his Georgia roots, but the details are too generic to paint a convincing picture of who he is. Review: Josh Kelly country transition a rocky one 2011-03-23T15:50:19Z She has a distinctively concrete and practical way with photographs, and so avoids generic documentary techniques such as the vague and slow camera-moves, and the graphic transitions and effects that dematerialize photographs. The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The specific is always easier to remember than the generic, even when the generic memories are all very positive. Statue of Liberty: Still America’s national icon? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The cooking, under Mr. McBride, has become utterly mundane, a pretty but flavorless imitation of French food of the kind found at any generic fake bistro. Restaurant Review: Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The cream, gray or brown paper they are made on enhances the generic, old-masterish look. Art Review: Rackstraw Downes Landscapes in Three Shows 2010-07-15T21:53:00Z Elsewhere on this album Mr. Jackson is more cautious, more generic and more stoic, even when it would serve his purposes to push into the red. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z Here is the plot of a generic hourlong police/court drama in the mold of “Law & Order” and its imitators from any time in the last two decades: ¶Minute 1: A crime is committed. Critic’s Notebook: Supreme Court’s DNA Ruling Tests the Scriptwriter’s Art 2013-06-04T22:12:16Z The sequel does away with the original movie’s pointed commentary on crime and corruption in the Dominican Republic, opting for a more generic revenge-movie approach. ‘La Soga Salvation’ Review: A Very Inferior Set of Thrills 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “Toys in the Attic” isn’t as unsettling as Mr. Svankmajer’s work, but even in this English-language version, it’s scarcely a cute and cuddly family film of the generic type often foisted on American tots. Movie Review: ‘Toys in the Attic,’ Directed by Jiri Barta 2012-09-06T22:53:02Z And the dialogue can be generic, to put it mildly. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Everything that happens thereafter is bog-standard for a story of this nature, right down to the slightly anachronistic and painfully generic nuclear family at its core. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z “Function makes garments generic. Style makes them special,” she said. Bottega Veneta gets a Milan reboot, DSquared2 spreads love 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z She is Grace, a teenager in a generic Springfield where the football team reigns and “weird” girls get called pigs with impunity. Review: Sexual Assault as Both History Lesson and Satire 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Then the real reason came out when they wanted me to rewrite the thank-you notes in a generic form, from all of us, to each kid and parent. Ask Amy: Family member casts ‘The Stupids’ Ask a woman named Karen what she used to think of her name and you’ll hear phrases like “generic,” “perfectly serviceable” and “an easy name.” A Brief History of ‘Karen’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Most of the thousands of faces in the painting were generic renditions of martial agony, ecstasy, or battlefield boredom. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z I could read a whole novel of voices from the many storefronts of this generic American Anywhere. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a cliché to point out that generic tropes are infecting the mainstream, with a piling-up of various apocalypses by those guilty of literature.” Don’t sleep on the Hugo Awards 2012-08-31T17:06:00Z The comeback queen’s promised account of the reasons she abandoned America to raise goats in Switzerland emerges as a fairly generic trajectory of self-empowerment, disillusionment and renewed hope, albeit with intriguing vignettes. | 'Jomama Jones: Radiate': On Hiatus From the Swiss Goats 2011-01-06T22:31:33Z Yet the feminist is almost by definition less compromised than the generic "woman" she believes herself to be defending. The Female Eunuch, 40 years on 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Neneh Cherry's Raw Like Sushi has been an influence on me ever since; it shows that pop music can have a personal style, it doesn't need to be generic, or not mean anything. Robyn: Soundtrack of my life 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z To say it's generic doesn't negate the fact that it's trademarked. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A teenage boy visits his mother’s childhood home and finds tiny people living under the floorboards, in a slight story with animation that’s lovely in a generic way. Ranking the Films of Studio Ghibli 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Their sculptural pieces are a more fitting souvenir of the city than any of the generic Murano beads you’ve seen so far. Roberto CoinVoice: How To Explore Venice Like A True Venetian 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z One problem is that its sloganeering seems too generic, too easy. 'The Age of Earthquakes' looks back instead of forward 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z "Most of all, it was very sweet. What it wasn't was solid red; instead, it had a light pink blush, reddish stripes, and a less pronounced strawberry shape, making it a pretty generic apple." The Red Delicious isn’t actually delicious anymore. So, why do we keep producing them in bulk? 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Sensibly, Black/Banville has also obeyed another piece of generic etiquette: the primacy of convincingly depicting place and time. A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black ? review 2011-07-07T08:16:57Z The generic description is it's a spy thriller. ArtsBeat: The Spy Who Married Me: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on 'The Americans' 2013-01-24T17:18:07Z Paradoxically, for a film named for a place, the new film is the more abstract, the more archetypal, the more generic film—like Scorsese’s “The Departed,” it’s a genre film, a classical melodrama. Kenneth Lonergan’s Devastating, Liberating “Manchester by the Sea” 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The organization found establishments mislead people into buying vulnerable species when they thought they were buying sustainable fish or they misrepresented lower-quality species under generic terms such as sea bass or catfish. Seafood fraud investigation finds 1 in 5 fish mislabeled in US 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z This memory adds richness and texture to the generic paranoia and suspense of “Black Friday”; the mall isn’t just a palatial prison, but also a tragic space of cultural and political reification. ‘Black Friday’ Shares Sophia Al-Maria’s Vision of Gulf Futurism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z While many of the movie’s visual details are right, the music — including generic imitations of ’70s styles — isn’t. Movie Review: ‘Blood Ties’ Ignores Rules of the Gangster Genre 2014-03-20T23:26:44Z “Buy brand-name for the stuff you care about, and cut costs mercilessly on commodities you don’t care about by buying generic.” 17 Simple Ways to Save Money Around the House 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z They want to sell me generic Viagra or oxycodone or Xanax at surprisingly affordable prices. Watch out, ‘pharmacy’ spam callers. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It was not a generic prediction, he later told me. How app culture turned astrology into a modern obsession 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Some treat patients for whom few generics are available. Your doctor is ripping you off: The truth about brand-name medications 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Still, the room, all black and white, felt sleek in a generic Ikea-ish sort of way. Hotel Review: Hotel Unique in São Paulo, Brazil 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Picture any Sara Paretsky or Lee Child book: They typically feature the author’s name in an enormous point size with the title in smaller letters underneath, usually above a generic and largely interchangeable image. A Brawling, Go-for-Baroque Pulpfest 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z These magazines often put generic fitness models on their covers instead of elite runners, he notes, because elite runners tend to have “the gaunt, haunted look of a hunted elk.” A Memoir That Might Inspire You to Break a Sweat 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Adapted from a popular children's animated series, "The Last Airbender" is a generic mishmash of themes, images and ideas drawn from a long list of quest narratives and science-fiction classics. "The Last Airbender": Shyamalan's fantasy schlockfest 2010-07-01T00:31:00Z The younger Ewings have polished, generic good looks without distinguishing marks on their faces — or their personalities. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z On the other hand, American cheese producers are concerned that caving into Europeans' demands to monopolize such names would be unfair as they wouldn't be able to continue using terms that they perceive as generic. An international battle over cheese has left European producers feeling bitter 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z But, its invention of a generic white knight who prompted the riots by hurling the first brick into a window is tantamount to stealing history from the people who made it. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z If most of the score suffers from a mild case of overstatement — whipping up a series of generic rock ballads and throat-shredding anthems — the book and staging suffer from full-blown emphasitis. Review: In ‘Paradise Square,’ Racial Harmony Turns to Discord 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Even with some sense of homage to the original choreography by Agnes de Mille, the sequence comes across as generic modern dance — and way too long. Review | A radical new Broadway ‘Oklahoma!’ says it’s not such a beautiful mornin’ in America 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z But this year a great majority of the titles are weak, generic affairs. Sundance 2015: What's in a (generic) movie title? 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z This TV show took everything subtle, quirky, and effective about the source movie, and transformed it into a vulgar, witless, generic bore. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z And look on the menu for the names of specific farms, not meaningless generic pastoral terms like “farm eggs,” which means nothing. Q&A: Even Michael Pollan Breaks Rules on the Road 2013-06-14T20:07:03Z He found his groove in the early ’90s with severely simplified, tightly cropped paintings of generic faces derived from newspaper and magazine photographs. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z We weren’t running out of topics, but our chat about the prescience of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” our children’s endless college tours and the decline of the subway, felt generic. How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z It looked like a generic sky to me: clouds, blue, sunlight. At the Apple Keynote, Selling Us a Better Vision of Ourselves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z And the set closes with more personal material, whose laughs are truer because harder won, and which shows us the vulnerability and affection obscured by the generic grumpy-dad shtick. Phill Jupitus ? review 2011-08-09T11:44:08Z The killing of Matthew Shepard represents much more than the tragic outcome of a generic testosterone-stomp. 20 years ago, Matthew Shepard was murdered: A letter from Laramie, 1998 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “Caprice” is far more interesting musically, if generic choreographically, with two violinists, Haoli Lin and Yabing Tan, joining the cast of 10 onstage. Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z Most of the others, even those that promise well, ultimately come across as generic, accomplishing little in terms of revealing character or driving plot. Kinky Boots – review 2013-04-05T09:57:07Z He’s never revealed the ingredients in his coating, other than to describe it as a generic “fish-fry meal.” After 30 years, Horace & Dickie’s is saying goodbye to a neighborhood its owner no longer recognizes 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The pregame spot was generic as it sounds from the description. Super Bowl movie ads: Grading 'Tomorrowland,' 'Furious 7' and more 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s not about seeking real insight, but rather about signalling that you’re interested in the person in a personal way, rather than sending the same generic question to everyone. Dating on Tinder: how can I go beyond chit-chat and start better conversations? 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Once a difficult mother becomes "difficult mothers" – once the particular problem is permitted to become generic – the two-way mirror is shattered and the battle for a more objective glimpse of our genesis is lost. Difficult Mothers by Terri Apter – review 2012-08-24T21:45:04Z At the top of the website for TVNZ, the country's biggest broadcaster, lining up alongside generic categories such as "news", "sport" and lifestyle is "The Hobbit". The Hobbit promises more gold for New Zealand 2012-10-13T19:08:15Z In the title role, baritone Michael Adams was more of a work in progress, relying on generic suavity rather than vocal command and characterization. A younger audience for a classic opera at the Kennedy Center 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z One of the reasons that “Building the Wall,” which closed early in New York, was a success in L.A. is that the Fountain Theatre wasn’t selling a generic anti-Trump play. Lost on Broadway: Michael Moore's 'The Terms of My Surrender' is a well-meaning misfire 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The drugs the companies sell are generic versions of the name-brand formulations, and the company gets the profit. Welcome to the Menopause Gold Rush 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z And as sales of recorded music dwindle, the incentives only increase to write songs around nuggets and generic sentiments that can be repurposed as ad jingles, ring tones and soundtrack backgrounds. Music: Want a Hit? Keep It Simple 2010-12-31T19:49:03Z Or could it be that director David Fincher will succumb to the temptation to dumb down the original source material to create something more generic in the interest of box office success? Could playing the anti-Bond be the best career move Daniel Craig's ever made? 2010-08-04T11:46:00Z Roughly half are figurelike forms made from hemp rope ropes worked in a knotted macramé technique of finger-aching ingenuity and titled with generic names of pre-Hindu nature spirits and fertility deities. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z As for Diamond Schmitt’s architecture, it is like the second-best-looking man in an old Hollywood film: generic, attractive enough, ceding center stage to the star, which is the music. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z As Annie’s experience as an abductee prompts her to explore hidden corners of her former life and dredge up old secrets, “Still Missing” risks sounding extremely generic. Books of The Times: Chilling Abduction in Chevy Stevens?s ?Still Missing? 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z All that said, Iamus is more successful than previous attempts to produce generic musical compositions from computers, even if for convincing proof, we'll need to hear what the London Symphony Orchestra's recording sounds like. Iamus's Hello World! – review 2012-07-01T21:19:06Z He is known for speaking about his work in a way that is both generic and grandiose. Jeff Koons Unveils His Iffy “Bouquet of Tulips” for Paris 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It certainly did during a week of Milanese fashion shows that were so unostentatious as to be generic. Fashion Review: Designers Anonymous 2011-01-19T22:49:22Z Portraying characters who virtually define the generic, Mr. Llana and Ms. Brown infuse Adam and Eve with some pleasing sparkle. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z Is that because screenwriters Ben Chandler and David James Kelly couldn’t be bothered to write their own generic pep talks, or is it a knowing illustration to how the past can wrap around the present? “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the abstract painting she gave me looks like something you’d find in a generic hotel hallway. My Brother-in-Law Vilified Us Online. Should We Still Have Him Over? 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z We see only a shadowy figure in an unspecified workspace wielding a generic goose-quill. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z It smartly categorizes weapons by damage type instead of placing them in generic "primary-special-heavy" silos. Destiny 2 Would Be Amazing Except For This One Huge Problem 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The generic city, which is where we are today, simply can’t survive the thrilling and torrential power of mankind packed and pressed into critical mass. Art review: ‘Architectural Image, 1920-1950’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z As I wrote when the show first premiered, one of the hardest things to explain about “Togetherness” is that it looks generic, but isn’t. If you’re not watching “Togetherness,” you’re missing some of the best TV of the year 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z And as it unspools, quirky Bob temporarily morphs into a blandly generic action figure. For Fans of Ivan, the Answer to ‘What About Bob?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Since “Blurred Lines,” a series of lawsuits have focused on short phrases or chunks of generic musical elements in combination; those cases may now be harder for plaintiffs to win. The ‘Blurred Lines’ Case Scared Songwriters. But Its Time May Be Up. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Before Twin Peaks there was plenty of well-made American TV, though it was mostly generic and limited in ambition. Twin Peaks: 20 years on 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z But in general, the redemptive air she brings offers a different shade beyond generic loathing of the self and others. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z “Eastern Boys,” the most compelling film to be shown at last year’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series at Lincoln Center and just now getting an American release, is impossible to shoehorn into a generic box. Review: In ‘Eastern Boys,’ a Train-Station Pickup Gone Wrong 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z This loose affiliation, Mr. Rentschler said, tends to be more radical than Mr. Tykwer’s cohort “in its resolve to defy generic expectations.” film: Tom Tykwer, Director of ?3? and ?Run Lola Run? 2011-09-09T12:30:00Z We found that products from generic brands fail to reap the same premiums from minimalist packaging. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z But from the forgettable title to the generic plot, the film doesn't do its star many favors. Vital clues to the 'True Detective' phenomenon 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Ron Livingston stars as a miserable drone at a generic tech company who gets stuck in a hypnotic state and ends up turning the place — and his whole life — upside down. 5 funniest workplace movies 2011-07-08T22:27:03Z Roomba, made by iRobot, was so dominant early on that it was fast becoming a generic term, sort of like “Hoover,” which is used as a verb in some parts of the world. Robot vacuums have cleaned up their act. Is it time to buy? 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Recast as an ethnically generic poor little rich boy, Mr. Wahlberg’s Jim Bennett lives in Los Angeles, mostly after dark in illegal gambling dens where Asian and black habitués serve as decoration. ‘The Gambler’ Stars Mark Wahlberg Indulging in a Habit 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Still, it seemed a trifle generic to my eye. A Tuxedo Should Reflect the Man 2012-02-22T21:48:11Z “The King of Escape,” for which American audiences may not be ready, belongs in its own generic niche. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z Because of his soft-edged realism and attraction to generic locations, Young is sometimes compared to such bards of the everyday as Edward Hopper. In the galleries: A photographer’s accident yielded artistic results 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s annoying, and the other details that he shares — a failed marriage, assorted deaths of loved ones — are pretty generic, so latching onto him as a sympathetic character is difficult. Review: ‘Phalaris’s Bull,’ or How a Man Comes to Terms With Life 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Shakespeare excelled in every available genre of Elizabethan drama – and the plays are his generic full house, hitting the jackpot identified by Polonius in Hamlet: "tragical-comical-historical-pastoral." Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z The design that the clients inherited with their purchase was plain without being simple and generic without being universal. Simply Sustainable 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But what they also aren’t, for the most part, is generic. CeeLo’s Strange New TV-Theme-Song Album 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z I thought she was generic and never made any effort to improve her likability factor; voters agreed with me. 'American Idol' Season 9: What happened to the girls? 2010-04-03T21:01:00Z And the reader drifts past many so-so secondary figures and generic tropical scenery before her presence is really felt. Books of The Times: Will Perilous Trek to Amazon Reveal Heart of Darkness? 2011-06-01T22:30:03Z In the late 1990s Dr. Reddy's was the original action hero in taking on the large multinationals and launching generic versions of their products. Dr. Reddy's Rejuvenation 2011-02-03T23:00:00Z And this despite JRR Token arguing that "token" was a generic term and couldn't possibly be confused with "Tolkien," nor was it infringing on any intellectual property. J.R.R. Tolkien estate vanquishes "Lord of the Rings"-themed cryptocurrency 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Fentanyl is widely used in a number of approved prescription drugs to treat intense cancer pain, including skin patches sold by Johnson & Johnson and generic drugmakers, as well as lozenges and under-the-tongue tablets. Death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spotlights fentanyl scourge 2014-02-05T02:17:36Z The cello evolved from the "bass violin", a generic name for a family of cello-like instruments appearing from the 1530s onwards – hulking, oversized violins mostly designed to be played while seated. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z Postcards widen the conversation by adding a third element: the image itself, whether tacky or beautiful, generic or informative. Are postcards a thing of the past? 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard does not bring Shostakovich directly into the picture, but Mr. Previn does, with uncanny takeoffs on the master’s music woven into more generic writing. Music Review: Something Borrowed and Something New 2011-05-08T22:19:30Z The documentary relies heavily on these talking heads to give older film and TV reels their context, but the passion and knowledge of the speakers lend force to this familiar — even generic — format. ‘Disclosure’ Review: A Transgender Lens on Film and TV History 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Fans of generic genre action will get their money’s worth. ‘Bullet to the Head’: Typical buff, tough Stallone 2013-01-31T04:40:50Z Mann then zooms in on the dissonance between her generic expensive kitchen and her exuberant personal style. Review | Stop feeling embarrassed by how much you love reality TV 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Making the show seem longer is the generic quality of much of the score. Idina Menzel is radiant in the flawed 'If/Then' at the Pantages 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Unlike the generic, hired-in sets used by commercial producers, every one of the dozen backcloths and 86 costumes are made specifically for this production. Behind the scenes at York Theatre Royal panto 2012-12-17T18:49:46Z It made most performances of the work that one routinely hears seem merely generic. David Afkham’s SSO debut uncommonly impressive | Classical review 2013-03-22T16:52:26Z Michael Stein: When we write something we’ll call it “too TV” if it’s borderline cheesy or just generic. Obsessed with “Stranger Things?” Meet the musicians behind the show’s spine-chilling synth score 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z That is, the feelings are generic, as if they belong to some other, luckier person. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z “Scandalous” isn’t so much scandalously bad as it is generic and dull. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z Set almost entirely within the confines of an elementary school and its grounds, it takes place in an unidentified Belgian neighborhood at an institution that’s as colorless, generic and unwelcoming as any educational sausage factory. ‘Playground’ Review: A Creation Story 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Sometimes it had the generic look of Gaga. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Instead of generic skirmishes, each fight is now based on a particular event, like Brown’s Raid, which is researched by the staff using the extensive archival collection. Fort Ticonderoga Re-enacts Dramatic Battles 2013-09-12T19:44:27Z And his hero is a generic guy who prompts some déjà vu. Review: ‘The Verdict’ Speaks in a Grisham-esque Tongue With a British Accent 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z One bright, generic abstract painting is titled “Somme,” conjuring the horrific World War I battle. Art in Review: Josephine Meckseper 2014-01-16T22:50:41Z The place itself is called Magic Castle, a kind of homemade generic knockoff of the Disney brand identity. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 2 The Florida Project 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Instead, “Dogs” underplays these elements and commits to the beats of the slow burn thriller in mostly generic form. ‘Dogs’ Review: Fish Out of Water 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z But both felt more generic than the intriguing set of dances by the Pamodzi troupe. Dance Review: At BAM, DanceAfrica?s Links Between Traditional and Modern 2010-05-30T21:33:00Z There they remade the tunes, working quickly but attentively with a crew of top-notch L.A. players in an effort to capture a wide-open quality that didn't feel generic. With 'The Voyager,' Jenny Lewis feels the album magic 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z There are exceptions to these generalisations, and huge differences between New Queer Cinema's activist expressionism and the generic populism that succeeded it. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z But the film proves uninterested in exploring this dystopia, instead settling into generic survivalist sensationalism. ‘Nowhere’ Review: Sensationalism at Sea 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In other words, this is not the generic, hyper-chlorinated hot tub you might recall from other ski vacations. The slopes, the powder and the prices make Japan a worthy ski trip 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Though tensions within the group are evident and play out in the second half of the film, these interactions are inevitably weak and generic compared to the thrill of the journalistic chase. 'Kill the Messenger' a cautionary tale for crusading reporters 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The film looks at several success stories from the Children’s Action Corps, which uses a one-child-at-a-time approach rather than fitting all children into a generic model. The Week Ahead: May 15 ? 21 2011-05-13T18:51:39Z Though it featured more than 100 comics of Asian descent, they purposefully gave the festival a generic title that omitted racial identifiers as a comment on representation and diversity. Comics of Asian Descent, Tired of Being Invisible, Put Themselves Onstage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The vocal writing is often generic, and some of his most effective instrumental effects are reminiscent of the finest dramatic film scores. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Otherwise, it really just tastes kind of generic and sweet at first. Our 2022 Starbucks Holiday beverages ranking 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Thicke and Williams argued that any kinship between the two songs was a result of generic components, and that no concrete similarities existed. Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z "For so long, female superheroes have been mistreated, and I think women's roles in general are often oversimplified and generic and saccharine," Johansson told Hero Complex before expounding on Black Widow's complexity. Evans shocks Scarlett Johansson on 'Ellen,' she dishes on 'delicate' male costars 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z And yet the audience, moving through this generic world, is still primed to find in it nuggets of human experience, to identify with content on more than a simply functional level. Perspective | I was on hold for an hour with the IRS. I didn’t hate the music. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Well, it isn't generic date nights, or random gifts or long walks in the park or breathing exercises. Stop inviting us to your weddings 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Yet apart from a dance for a pack of cards that is cardlike in its flipping flatness, even these segments are too generic, almost lifted from some other ballet. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z They argued that the name "gruyere" is generic and cannot be owned by anyone. An international battle over cheese has left European producers feeling bitter 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z So while my column was never a generic guidebook, I can offer some sharp-elbowed nudges to help others who are grieving or who simply need to deal with change, welcome or not. How to survive the death of a loved one 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Maybe her soft, generic titles — “Come to Me,” “Love Invents Us,” “Lucky Us” — were a deterrent. ‘In Love,’ a Novelist’s Powerful Memoir About a Happy Marriage and an Assisted Suicide 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Because it might appear generic doesn't mean it's not trademarked. Lagunitas drops lawsuit against Sierra Nevada after Twitter backlash 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Again, Hardy’s accent seems to ride in and out on the wind, appearing when necessary and getting usurped by a generic, Star Trek: Nemesis-esque growl when he can get away with it. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z But he also found her iconography “generic and clichéd.” Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Dies at 96 2012-04-04T02:45:28Z These generic personal tidbits are the most Chelsea will dole out. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Despite the specificity of its setting, much of the movie — its obstacles, ambushes, moments of reflection and oases of respite — felt generic, schematic and often laughably contrived. Sorry, best picture front-runners: She’s just not that into you. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z They seem to occupy a third sphere of slick and pointless professionalism, where too much technique serves relatively skimpy, generic ideas. Art Review: The Home Video Rises to Museum Grade 2010-10-22T00:00:00Z This brings us to the biggest problem with "Fallout," which is how doggone generic it is. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”: Tom Cruise action spectacle delivers high-level summer fun 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Minimalist in design, the Duplex is intentionally generic; its identity lies in its content rather than in its architecture. 2010-01-14T18:45:00Z All of the guys are pretty good singers and already have an edge over the much more generic group of young women. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z Paul was younger, and they met on a residential course in Devon; the furnishings of this novel are generic, as if they had been ordered from a mail-order catalogue of liberal taste. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z One answer, perhaps, is that it is precisely there, at the level of the family, that a generic concept, such as “the play of forces”, is at its least generic. Busy people 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z That generic pop-gospel anthem from the Broadway musical “Memphis” belongs in the same category as Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Music Review: Pop, Soul and Show Tunes in a Quest for Lifelong Love 2011-02-23T23:01:06Z Although they are sometimes smoothly woven into the plotline, these blandly generic love songs can also be a drag on the production’s energy. Review: ‘On Your Feet!’ Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Similarly, "Captain Marvel" also had shapeshifting aliens, although the Skrull in "Captain Marvel" were better developed because they felt like individuals rather than generic villains, and their storyline included a clever twist. "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The portraits are in some ways more compelling than the comparatively generic nudes. 2010-02-12T00:02:00Z But mostly they bop around acting like blandly innocent Jersey Girls, generic teenagers getting ready for a sock hop, or even Mouseketeers. | 'Baby It?s You!': Girl Group Tale Is Reharmonized 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z It’s generic: These slippery bodies stop one beat short of anguish. Review: Wendy Whelan’s ‘Restless Creature’ Is Full of Jagged Rhythms 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z "It's that generic cornpone drawl that Hollywood would usually have us believe everyone below the Mason-Dixon line speaks," the magazine fumed. Gambit gabble: what actors' accents lack 2012-11-26T16:46:43Z Like the production as a whole, it somehow reminds you of a generic host of golden-age musicals without ever staking a claim to its own unassailable identity. Review: A Con Man Without a Sting in ‘High Button Shoes’ 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z If the sculptures’ scrunched steel records weeks of physical labor, the discs, ordered from a foundry in Washington, appear as pristine and generic as a digital rendering. Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s only a generic, dirt-toned motel room, depressingly familiar in its seediness. | 'The Mountaintop': ?The Mountaintop,? With Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett 2011-10-14T02:01:03Z "A Soldier's Gift," one of two originals he co-wrote, gets points off for the generic "Thank you, soldiers" line. Holiday music: Seth MacFarlane, Downton Abbey, Idina Menzel, more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z If Hamaguchi were another generic French filmmaker, or if he made gore-splattered genre movies or was just more obvious, he might attract greater distributor interest. ‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’ Review: What We Talk About 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Most of the other 10 programs consist of shorts that have been gathered under gnomic and generic headings like “Beyond Landscape,” which draws together titles that deal with, yes, landscape. One of the New York Film Festival’s Best Movies Isn’t at the Main Event 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Ordinarily I don’t find Mr. Dowell’s art all that gripping; there’s something generic about its slightly updated modernism. Art Review: New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble 2011-01-06T23:24:53Z Ms. Bray doesn’t bring any interior life to the role of the eager-eyed young Uta, who is written as a fairly generic ingénue — a less conniving but less colorful Eve Harrington. Theater Review: ‘Ten Chimneys,’ About Lunts, at Theater at St. Clement’s 2012-10-04T20:42:51Z Two feral children spook out their adoptive mom in this generic domestic horror. This week's new films 2013-02-23T06:00:14Z Conveniently addicted to laudanum, Dr. Price is soon staggering around the labyrinthine structure, besieged by generic scares: a creepy butler, a rattling armoire, a child in the grip of milky-eyed possession. Review: ‘Winchester’ Has a Grim Helen Mirren. And a Silly Script. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z In a matter of hours, the dry, sunny town that I call home was transformed into a delta of rubble and debris, a generic Disaster Zone. Help, we’re drowning!: Please pay attention to our disaster 2013-09-17T23:00:00Z Though both were heavy on generic fruit and clothing offerings, they were a good start. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Auckland, Exploring the South Seas Without Setting Sail 2012-04-10T19:43:38Z However, it wasn't to be – The Last Song opened to a measly $16m in America, putting it behind Clash of the Titans, a generic Tyler Perry movie and a week-old cartoon about some dragons. When will Nicholas Sparks stop making girls cry? 2010-04-22T21:05:00Z Beyond medicines, lots of times there’s not much difference between generic and brand-name products. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z But as the years push them forward, into middle age and beyond, they become ever more generic and less interesting. Review: Children Growing Very Old in ‘Before Your Very Eyes’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Well, not exactly bell hooks’ number, but a generic number that will serve up an automated quote from the writer and activist through text or voicemail. Don’t want to give that guy your phone number? Let him talk to bell hooks instead! 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The women are a bit more vibrant than the men, though only generically, and this only highlights the choreography’s generic quality. Review: Alvin Ailey, at City Center, Maintains Polished Approach to Familiar Footwork 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z We are invited to follow this enterprising urchin, in a sprigged greeny-blue tunic, striped shorts and flip-flops, as she scoots blithely on her own through an unnamed, generic contemporary metropolis. A Scheherazade for Our Times 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet because much of the rest of the story is so underdeveloped — notably Claire’s intimate life with her frustratingly generic children — the character overwhelms everything, including the fragile realism. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z But it turns out to be a garment that is ubiquitous and utterly generic. Westworld recap: season 3, episode 5 – panic on the streets of LA 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The problem is more likely to be the generic nature of Emily’s misadventures, and the soap opera implausibility of the medical stories, which is extreme, even for the genre. Television Review: ‘Emily Owens, M.D.,’ With Mamie Gummer, Begins on CW 2012-10-15T21:55:29Z Actual races tend to be covered from fairly generic angles or splintered into several shots. ‘On Any Sunday, the Next Chapter,’ a Sequel by Dana Brown 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z It looked traditional, with reference to early Renaissance paintings, specific or generic, from the ornate stepped altarpieces of Crivelli to Leonardo's Last Supper. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z “Swedish meatballs” seems to be a generic term for many meatball recipes out there, but the ones sent in all sound wonderful! Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Easy-to-make pumpkin bread 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z These are considered generic and fall outside of federal oversight. "Tiger King" and America’s captive tiger problem 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z We’re not too surprised that Jordan would be making generic pharmaceuticals for the U.S. market. Vitamin D solves pain problem | People’s Pharmacy 2012-12-07T02:20:05Z Gooding sank even further into generic action movies with titles such as Ticking Clock, The Way Of War and Wrong Turn At Tahoe. Cuba Gooding Jr: ‘I had 10 years in the wilderness’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Not that this generic gangland banger, written and directed by David Ayer, remotely deserves the comparison. ‘The Tax Collector’ Review: Street Gangs and Family Values 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z It shows Moore sitting on a stool in front of a generic backdrop explaining how it is illegal to say, "I want to kill the President of the United States of America." The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “Heart” feels disconcertingly generic at times: Anouka, perhaps in an attempt to make the show feel more “universal,” tends to prefer bromides like “love is love” over the details that would have grounded the play. ‘Heart’ Review: First a Starter Marriage, Then Real Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z I don’t get it and am tired of making generic sympathetic comments. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Does moving out have to be the end for a couple, or can it be a beginning? 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z And free of its generic studio jangle, the anti-fame manifesto “27” sounded more truthful. Quiet fans happily go for a ride with Passenger at Echostage Recent single Losing You is a record whose generic shapeshifting and very cool video represent watermarks of her liberation. This week's new live music 2013-01-12T06:00:12Z What's familiar here is a plot edging on soap opera, and fairly generic stage pop ballads. Review: Vivacious, zesty 'In the Heights' ? on tour stop in Seattle ? has plenty of high points 2010-10-01T20:49:00Z After all, dark suits are essentially a synonym for generic world leader uniform, which is why people freak out when a president makes the rare appearance in beige. Kamala Harris, in Southeast Asia and in Uniform 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Drinks and Wine Cocktails and a well chosen if somewhat generic wine list. Jams Gets a Reboot in Midtown 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z And it contains the single most generic James Tolkan role ever committed to screen. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z These worries have been set to blandly generic music by Mr. Lippa. | 'The Addams Family': Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth on Broadway 2010-04-09T02:29:00Z He told her how much funnier she was offstage, telling stories, than onstage with her more generic one-liners. How Ms. Pat overcame drugs, prison and abuse — and rose to comedy stardom 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z “We didn’t think we’d hear from Old Navy, and that if we did, it would be a generic email.” First-grader wrote Old Navy asking for girls’ jeans to have real pockets. The letter went viral. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Each page contains one joke, often no more than a sentence long, accompanied by a generic photo of nature or wildlife or something vaguely meditative and all-American. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Having never imagined angel wings as coming in any variety other than generic swan white, I was grateful to Barnes for opening my eyes to the ornithological inspiration for angels. The Passion and Peril of Birding 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z District Court Central District of California, Sleigh Bells says the similarities between the two songs "transcend the realm of coincidence or shared generic material, and inform the very essence of the works." Demi Lovato sued for copyright infringement 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Instead, they write that Benjamin’s writings defy “simple generic categorization.” Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z But even as an amorous daydream, “Finding You” is dated and generic, Disney Channel-movie-esque, but without the charismatic teen stars. ‘Finding You’ Review: A Fiddler Falls in Love 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Luthor himself was originally a stodgy, generic mad scientist with a full head of hair. Batman v Superman: no version of the characters can be right or wrong 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The guidelines urge members to choose generic costumes — of zombies, spiders or ghosts, say — or to base their costumes on characters from animated television shows. Halloween Is Tricky for Actors on Strike 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Locals talk about how it’s growing out of its generic roots, gaining a consciousness about non-chain businesses. Restaurant Report: Thunderbird in Indianapolis 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z But his achievements were swamped and obscured by wave upon wave of generic desktop-size bronzes in the ensuing centuries, and his name was forgotten until early-20th-century art historians rediscovered him. Art Review: ‘Antico,’ at the Frick Collection 2012-05-31T22:20:33Z Cohaagen is a delectable villain for Schwarzenegger to knock off, but he’s not an evil genius with some generic or arbitrary plans to be unraveled. Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z A boombox blared U2 and R.E.M. while a few brave girls floated on rafts or batted a rubber ball around in the pool, like a commercial for some generic island getaway. "Bama Rush" reminded me of my own desperate need to belong 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z While real maple syrup does certainly contain quite a bit of sugar, it's still preferable in many ways to generic pancake syrup. Don't sugar coat it: How "pancake syrup" stacks up to real maple syrup 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z "When it came to life in the big city, Black Widow had it all figured out," a generic narrator says over a shot of the Manhattan skyline. Scarlett Johansson gets her own Marvel movie in 'SNL' spoof 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Her figures, both generic and idealized like characters out of a Norman Rockwell painting, wear hats and hold horns also nodding to New Year’s festivities. Nick Cave Goes Underground 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z The generic big family with generic big problems is nothing we've not seen before. Love and Marriage – TV review 2013-06-06T07:29:48Z Like many of his creations, it amounts to a generic mix of mechanical, limb-jutting movements and passion that seethes just beneath the surface. Review: São Paulo Dance Company Makes a Tepid U.S. Debut 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The film is fuzzy when you want it to be sharp, its characters too generic to register, particularly Gill’s one-note Prashant. ‘Panga’ Review: Put Me in Coach, I Have Life Experience 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z So it's possible that the simplicity of generic product packaging signals a lack of investment in the product rather than fewer chemicals or food additives. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z There's no legal requirement to register these generic tigers, nor a comprehensive national database to track and monitor them. "Tiger King" and America’s captive tiger problem 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “Just like ‘House of Balloons’ symbolizes Toronto and my experiences there, but it’s a world that I created,” he explained, noting that he felt “Dark World” was too generic a title. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z In taste tests, consumers have a hard time telling the difference between, say, a name-brand ketchup and generic stuff. 7 rip-offs you need to know about 2013-09-11T15:25:00Z That of course would be to transgress the generic aims of this work with its unnamed cities and unnamed characters. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-04-21T06:00:29Z Minibars, generic when we visited, now include Dean & DeLuca snacks, along with local beer, wine and craft spirit selections, hotel managers said. An Artsy Hotel Brightens the Scene in Ohio’s Capital City 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “Once it’s over, they don’t want to know you. Of course, that’s not generic to the Democrats.” Mort Sahl, comedian who satirized politics, dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z What is the advantage, for you as a writer, of keeping the setting generic? This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Context is key to revues; without legible situations or some sort of thesis, they can easily sag into generic concertizing. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z The “executive’s” email contained other red flags: poor English; an online-only contact with a generic email address; a “temporary wage” for the initial tasks, with promises to discuss salary later. Work Advice: Beware the crafty job scammers, even on the most trusted ad sites 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z I parked on a side street and walked toward the small town center, which had the feel of a pleasant but generic outdoor shopping mall. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z These rather generic subplots diffuse the movie’s vibrant blue-collar crusade, which gets a boost from a tizzy jazz score. ‘The Duke’ Review: Suspect’s 61 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z They help elevate the more generic beats in “Doctor Strange” because, for all the phantasmagoria and time-skipping, there is also much by the book, including the vaguely Christ-like, fallen and risen savior. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z A recurring response was that the generic advertising branded the festival more effectively than it informed audiences about particular productions. A festival, a Fringe move and a firing mark D.C.’s theater year 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Dull, generic and padded, the series, one of the premiere offerings for NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service on Wednesday, transmutes a provocative warning into a vision of a sci-fi world that feels neither brave nor new. Review: Peacock’s ‘Brave New World’ Is Neither Brave Nor New 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Today, film studies courses are unlikely to linger on Fairbanks’s work: it’s considered generic Hollywood product, with little more to it than dazzles the eye. Douglas Fairbanks: extraordinary life of Hollywood founding father 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the emotions ring true, and the characters’ generic quality suits their stage of life as they shed their naive asumptions. Why love didn't work, from each party in 'The Last Five Years' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Kitt’s music has a generic pop sound that sometimes works, as in “Drum Circle,” a Disney-esque tune chock-full of lively, layered percussion; and “Heart in Your Hands,” a rather maudlin song with angelic harmonies. Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z I ask her when epitaphs became so generic—so many graves repeat the same thing; “Beloved wife,” “Beloved Husband,” “Beloved Son”—and if she has seen any special ones. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z In addition to the more generic requirements of finding a man who could cook, clean and enjoy long walks on the beach, I also needed one who could deal with my biological baggage. Don’t touch my breasts, hon 2012-10-08T01:00:00Z And the bulk of those products are globally generic accessories. Schiaparelli and Prada Connected With Women?s Inner Feelings 2012-04-11T22:01:05Z I really wanted to include a “desert island” man, and I tried versions by different artists, but, strangely enough, they all looked a little generic in the mix. R. Sikoryak’s “Get the Picture” 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Sometimes it reads like a generic ad designed to introduce a political newbie: Hillary is “a woman with a steadfast commitment to public service, a clear political vision and a deep well of personal integrity.” David Brock’s ‘Killing the Messenger’ 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z So “Need for Speed” opens up a few generic cans of feeling, the ones labeled Betrayal and Honor. Movie Review: ‘Need for Speed’ Puts Video Gamers in the Passenger Seat 2014-03-13T21:41:59Z I think they may start to get a little repetitive, especially since it follows the generic quest pattern. Lance of Truth by Katherine Roberts - review 2012-11-18T09:00:00Z Actually, I stopped by Shillington first, because that is where Updike spent part of his childhood, but Shillington is a bland, generic suburb. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z Of course, it is a terrifically confident, plausible performance, but unlike almost any other Day-Lewis movie, it is slightly generic. Daniel Day-Lewis: an extraordinary career of acting artistry – is it really all over? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In many cases, it literally becomes cheaper to buy a bottle of Coke than to buy a dose of a generic injectable drug. How Margaret Hamburg's FDA Causes Cancer Drug Shortages 2012-06-15T16:27:31Z But the movie as a whole is fairly generic action fare: a few punch-outs, a few shootouts, nothing special. 'Pride,' 'The Equalizer,' 'The Good Lie' and more 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Next to them, the teens appeared almost generic. Judith Mackrell on Pina Bausch's Kontakthof 2010-04-07T21:15:00Z But all the other characters have been rewritten into states of high, and rather generic, idiosyncrasy. | 'Once': ?Once,? the Musical, at New York Theater Workshop - Review 2011-12-07T03:01:07Z The same goes for women older than 17 who decide to jump through the hoops of getting a prescription, either for over-the-counter Plan B or the prescription-only generic and Ella versions. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z The official World Cup song and video is getting decidedly mixed reviews in Brazil, where many locals are complaining of generic foreign rhythms and lazy stereotypes. Brazilians cold on Pitbull's World Cup theme, 'We Are One' 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z Rather, they suggest a generic message of sympathetic decency beside which the horror of the archival photographs is minimized. What’s Missing from the German Cinema 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Though flanked by the obligatory dancers and sci-fi graphics, his singing and dancing were authoritative, carrying even the most generic catalogue tracks. Usher – review 2012-06-13T15:59:18Z Both are largely generic, bland wines that are nonetheless highly popular. 10 Great Bottles of Italian White Wine Under $25 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The Egyptian depiction of a slender, generic dog closely resembles the emoji of a prancing canine in profile. Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Both bands' musical styles are a refreshing alternatives to generic pop that is breaking out in other parts of the music scene. Iranian blues and jazz bands find fans in Tehran 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The lighting is mellow, generic R&B is playing in the background, and the 29-year-old singer slips effortlessly into a pose in the short time allotted, he reports. Alicia Keys: charity gigs and arena tours 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z She's also very attractive and introduces him to spiced foods; he's a lonely, generic British potato. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z For constipated children in excruciating pain, Dr. Tricia Jean Gold, a pediatrician in Brooklyn, has no problem recommending Miralax or a PEG generic laxative, which draws water into the colon to soften stool. Motherlode Blog: Beyond Miralax: Parents Share Advice for the Constipated Child 2012-05-27T03:43:01Z Chang’s, a Borders and a giant parking structure, each dismayingly generic. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Avia Long Beach, in Long Beach, Calif. 2010-12-17T20:45:23Z The Met exhibition unfolds slowly, with cypresses initially poking up as generic foliage in the far distance of his landscapes from Arles. Van Gogh and the Consolation of Trees 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Like many musos immersed in their own generic patch who haven't got round to classical yet, Lamacq is fearful because he thinks it's so huge a world it's impossible to know where to start. Classical music: a beginner's guide 2011-07-13T14:27:11Z I actually had a guy say, “Stop interpreting my questions, this is a generic interview.’ The Carpetbagger: Possible Nominees Look Toward Oscars 2011-12-14T23:41:05Z Elsewhere, swathes of the recorded sound score lapse into more generic, cheapening combinations of drum machine and sentimental strings. Review: A New Zealand Troupe’s Oceanic Feelings 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z If he’s the least interesting character in this novel, it’s because his madness remains somewhat generic and opaque, impervious to sympathy or understanding. Review: In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s ‘The Harder They Come,’ Rugged Individualism Run Amok 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z As in every successful franchise, the casting in the Spider-Man movies has often been as, or more, crucial than the generic elements. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Review: Listen Bud, No Spoilers Here 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z In America, four-fifths of drug prescriptions are for cheap, affordable generic medications. Lipitor is Dead. Long Live Lipitor! 2011-11-30T18:25:33Z Afterwards, they were all given “the same generic negative feedback” regarding their presentation. Why you can’t stop perusing your Facebook profile 2013-02-11T20:35:00Z Plagued by a rickety premise, generic sets and invaders who recall Doctor Who’s Cybermen, “Alien Outpost” jabs its finger at the Iraq War with repetitive obviousness. ‘Alien Outpost,’ Directed by Jabbar Raisani 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z In German, they inform us, to "get yourself Franzed", deriving from the generic name for a navigator in the imperial German flying corps during the first world war, means to become hopelessly lost. Christmas gifts 2012: the best stocking-filler books 2012-11-28T13:00:03Z In pursuit of cheaper alternatives, consumers become more open to trying private-label or store-brand products, discounted brands and generic or unbranded options. The rising cost of living is eroding brand loyalty as consumers seek more cost-effective alternative 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The more generic, the harder it will be for a lobby to succeed. | Boom Boom Rooms, Part One 2010-11-19T13:00:00Z You’ve gone after and gotten college, grad school, job, spouse, kids, just as the generic instructions said. Don’t sweat the small stuff, find more big stuff 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The movie, like the book it is based on, takes its automobiles seriously, so the fleeing coupe is no generic old-timer. ?Tintin? Film Casts Cars Among Star Performers 2011-11-27T03:07:02Z When you get Playmobil, you simply get generic scenarios: Vacation, Pirates, Knights, Airport, Supermarket. One of the best-selling sets is a Christmas manger scene. The Playmobil Conundrum 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The whole is distilled into the kind of generic yet brightly colored minimalism that plays so well on Instagram. Are You Cleaning Enough? Celebrities Want to Help. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes you want to wail "Make it stop" – but for musicality, this collection is streets ahead of where much generic jazz-funk wound up. Billy Cobham: Original Album Series – review 2013-01-24T23:00:01Z Their developing relationship propels this novel toward its conclusion, but can’t, in the end, make up for its tired, rickety and all too generic plot. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Fake ones use more generic words like “vacation,” “family” and “experience” accompanied by a lot of commas and exclamation marks. How to spot fake reviews on travel sites 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Those experiences are relayed in a generic bad-date montage that’s indicative of what the series comes up with when it “adds” to the material in the podcast. Review: With ‘Dirty John,’ a Podcast Is Worth 480 Minutes of TV 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z And the view from an airplane isn’t exactly inviting: a flat and featureless plain of generic towers sprawling into the horizon. Weekend in Houston 2010-05-07T04:04:00Z I returned to a huge heating bill and a small, generic pepper mill. Social Q?s: How to Choreograph the End of a Call 2011-03-10T19:55:58Z But there’s something generic about Meyer, and about “Hunters,” even as the show tries very hard to be singular. Review: Al Pacino and Nazis, in Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z As they note in their study, this industry features the regular introduction of many new products and brands, and also many generics trying to compete with the established brands. Conservatives and liberals drink different beer 2013-02-27T16:32:00Z Though their clothing and movements are convincing, up close their flesh appears reptilian and their faces generic. Iñárritu’s ‘Carne y Arena’ Simulates a Harrowing Desert Trek to a New Life 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z After writing a draft, Mr. Linson realized his jokes were too generic. How Robert De Niro Learned to Become ‘The Comedian’ 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z But the generic arena affectations and the lack of audience interaction were minor problems compared with Grande’s biggest one: Her gorgeous four-octave soprano was often obscured by her bass-heavy backing band. Review | Not much ‘dangerous’ about Ariana Grande’s live performance 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z “Plain Jane” borrows from the annals of generic self-help as freely as it borrows from “What Not to Wear,” though it rejects that series’s snarky criticisms of the inexplicably dressed. | 'Plain Jane': Louise Roe Gives an Ugly Duckling New Feathers on CW 2010-07-27T21:03:00Z And the words are as generic and utilitarian as possible: “Let’s Get It Started,” “Pump It,” “Missing You.” Music Review | Black Eyed Peas: Wired for Sound, and Everything Else 2010-02-25T23:12:00Z Gnocchi in a wash of tomato sauce is generic but tolerable, like the elevator-music rendition of Vivaldi that accompanied dinner recently. Noelia Italian Kitchen, trending toward ho-hum Still, if the coats are specific, the choreography is generic, and Before Night Fell doesn't amount to more than suggestive imagery and nifty lifts. Company Chameleon 2010-04-16T22:00:00Z The word describes, on the most generic level, a crumbly cake. | Haute Crumbs at Morini and Lincoln 2010-10-19T18:27:00Z Like Adriano, these characters are so shoddily drawn and so off-the-rack generic that Mr. Amis is keen to emphasize their vital statistics, as this may be the only way we can remember who is who. Books of The Times: Martin Amis Dissects the Sexual Revolution in ?The Pregnant Widow? 2010-05-10T21:51:00Z Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Cameron would never make an adventure flick that felt this bland and generic. "Sanctum": James Cameron presents an underwater cave thriller 2011-02-03T01:31:00Z Eventually, he relented and the billboards — which now begin about halfway through North Carolina if you’re heading south on I-95 — have been edited down to generic dad jokes. This S.C. roadside attraction is garish, tacky and un-PC — but I stopped anyway 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Should I then discard the ugly generic proof and lose my brilliant insights? Perspective | In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z So is Andrew Boyce’s set, which summons a dingy, mildewed generic motel room. Review: ‘Dana H.’ Maps a Harrowing Journey Into Hell 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “Jordan”: Yes, I can supply it generic in 40 milligram. Watch out, ‘pharmacy’ spam callers. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z It would be a disservice to describe Mr. Murray’s singing as generic. Review: Todd Murray’s ‘Croon,’ Caresses Woven From Music and Lyrics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Most companies advertise that they “hand-wash” rugs, but that’s just a generic term. What you need to know before you hire a carpet cleaner 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z But Greer Grimsley, a veteran Wotan, offered no more than a good “B” house performance, stalking around the stage with stock gestures of his spear and singing with a voice generic and slightly worn. Review | The Met Opera’s high-tech ‘Ring’ was a flop. Can a soprano change that at its revival? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Plus, I had no other plans and no one was answering my phone calls The mall has a theater – a generic monstrosity called the Pacific Theaters 18 – in the middle of the complex. 13 Hours: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie and 'the American Way' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “So much of the world is gray or beige and very generic,” Rashid says. | The IRT, Italian Style 2011-04-20T18:15:12Z It wasn’t just the generic Hollywood feeling to which many of us are susceptible. Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Bass loafers, all of which now stood in cool contrast to the generic palette around her. Daisy Edgar-Jones Would Like the Ingénue Phase of Her Career to End Now 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z If my aunt or uncle asked, I might come up with something generic like pop music with vocals. Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z Some of the plotting is a tad generic, but the promise of a larger story unfolding makes for a compelling drama. TV highlights – 10/05/2013 2013-05-10T05:59:01Z The scene: a generic pub, but with the tables really far apart. Broadband Choices new ad 2013-02-16T06:00:08Z He was ranting then, too, though it was generic stuff about the welfare system and was not at all newsworthy. Critic’s Notebook: After Patriarch’s Outburst, ‘Duck Dynasty’ Is Back 2014-01-14T22:33:55Z But Michelin inspectors write stuffy, generic things like “The words posh and exclusive come to mind when admiring the spacious tables, corner banquettes, and stunning views.” Yelp vs. Food Critics 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z With his light bass-baritone, Pisaroni personifies suave affability and carries long stretches of the action with his easy, if somewhat generic, charm. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Meanwhile elevators, alleys, concourses and parking garages — the generic and forgettable corners of the architectural landscape, territory architect Rem Koolhaas once labeled "junkspace" — are continuously watched by security cameras and satellites. Donald Sterling, Jay Z find that private space is open to scandal 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z After those early episodes, when production of the series moved to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, the pies became more generic. Another ‘Twin Peaks’ Puzzle: How to Make That Cherry Pie 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z One, the writing is generic at best, the prose equivalent of truck-stop lighting. Books of The Times: Clark Howard?s ?Living Large In Lean Times? - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:10Z This would be more poignant if Ms. Wersche’s compositions were more beautiful than generic. Art Review: ?Swept Away,? at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-04-05T21:43:03Z It’s a movie “that is by turns startling and generic, subtle and blunt, and consistently keeps you in its grip if not its heart,” Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in April. New on DVD: ?X-Men: First Class,? ?Scarface,? ?Hanna? 2011-09-04T02:53:02Z For the next five years, the fair was held on — or exiled to — an upper floor of a generic office building on 34th Street, where it did not flourish. Art Review: Outsider Art Fair Opens at 548 West 22nd Street 2013-01-31T23:02:48Z The message was written as a postscript on a generic card for first class passengers on American Airlines flights. American Airlines attendant gives Black Lives Matter note to travel influencer 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z As sung by Aimée Cucchiaro, a continual delight as a series of generic victims, as well as an aspiring fashion designer named Pixie, this clever ditty kicks things off to an enjoyable start. Theater Review: ‘The House of Von Macramé’ at Bushwick Starr 2013-01-27T22:48:18Z But that did not happen with Gibson; he was as good in last year's generic Edge of Darkness as he was in Gallipoli and Mad Max. Mel Gibson: the year of living disastrously 2010-12-16T22:39:01Z A handful of flashbacks of Andrew and Eric’s life as a couple — including their adoption of Wen — makes them seem like more than panicked, generic victims, while also opening up the occasionally stagy action. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z He will almost certainly lose in November to the Republican candidate, “generic Republican candidate,” but because he is an ex-elder statesman attempting to return to statesmanning, his campaign is getting lots of ink. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z Similarly, these dangerous ventures, whether with a larger group in city streets or with the trio of Malorie and the children in the wild, are filmed with illustrative approximations, in generic gestures and fragments. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night at City Center the Fall for Dance Festival offered its third program, a mixed bag of ballet, tap, contemporary European dance — the generic variety — and, most mercifully, the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z Unfortunately, the modern couple’s generic conflicts, which never dig deeper than pop psychology tropes, lack the detail and nuance of the Civil War arc. Dual road trips -- then and now -- to 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times on Friday, Andy Webster said that it “rarely rises above the generic.” Up Close: Tatiana Von Furstenberg on Her Film ?Tanner Hall? 2011-09-15T00:09:57Z But by the time Brown-Forman bought the brand in 1979, the kick inside the bottle was provided not by whiskey, but by grain neutral spirit — basically a generic alcohol free of character, not unlike vodka. Surprise! Southern Comfort Has No Whiskey. But Soon It Will. 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z A product from a generic brand is one that does not have a brand name and is typically sold at a lower price than name brand equivalents. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Most often, however, it was pins and generic T-shirts. Why Voting Is in Fashion 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z To some observers, it is generic — Heather Havrilesky at BuzzFeed wrote a scathing diatribe against the show for embodying “the apotheosis of hipster family awfulness.” If you’re not watching “Togetherness,” you’re missing some of the best TV of the year 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Based — loosely seems altogether too generous a word — on the Stephen King series, the movie is an unappealing hash of moviemaking clichés that, after much scurrying and blathering, devolves into a generic shoot’em-up. Review: The Good, the Bad and the Stupid in ‘The Dark Tower’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Sharp, uncharacteristic behavioral changes that mirror those of addicts or potential problem gamblers trigger interventions ranging from generic warning messages to contact from teams trained to discuss behavior and possible remedies. Gambling companies step up efforts to sway addiction debate 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z I didn't like the idea of just the generic disclaimer, which you see like, "What you're about to see is based on fact. However, some of the characters have been changed." Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Insurers charge patients a higher co-pay for using an expensive branded drug, in situations where a generic alternative might suffice. Should the FDA Approve More Drugs after Phase II? A Response to Matthew Herper 2012-05-04T14:25:06Z As crazy as this may sound, Nirvana was a joke to all of us — a generic grunge band with a terrible name. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z In an unusual twist, Ali stumbles a bit, mistaking his four leaf clover emoji for a generic herb and producing a dish that's not especially noteworthy. "Top Chef: World All Stars" soars with "food rebel" and guest judge Gaggan Anand at the helm 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z If you are still at risk of a heart attack, consider taking a statin drug like Lipitor or generic Zocor. 2010-02-04T01:00:00Z The opening scenes with their comically generic locations, like the bookstore with a sign that just says “books,” get the movie off to a puckish start. Movie Review | 'Easier With Practice': On the Phone, Alienated and Indulging 2010-02-25T23:33:00Z Its action is generic, but he’s always special. Review: Matt Damon Elevates Jason Bourne
Beyond Generic Action 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Macklemore has been outspoken about his history with drug addiction, so surely this is a personal project for him — and yet the result is surprisingly generic. Macklemore’s new Very Special song: Do we really need a Bono for hip hop? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “To Rome With Love” — a fairly generic title that reportedly replaced the more evocative “Bop Decameron” and “Nero Fiddled” — is full of affection for the motley patchwork of Italian culture. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z While Lilium hosted some events during , a more recent visit found a more generic scene, populated with out-of-town hotel guests and those driving in for a night of club-hopping. Bo?te: Lilium in Union Square 2012-02-29T23:03:57Z Where a pair of fairly generic 18th-century bronze light fixtures had hung, the museum has installed a crystal chandelier with spiraling arms made in Berlin around 1810 for Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother. Tattoo History, Antique Typewriters and Letting Go at the Toledo Museum 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “It’s not just a generic period room. Each room is a chapter of the Washingtons’ biography.” Keeping up with the Washingtons: Historians just found evidence of the first sofa in Virginia 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The Garden State, or at least a generic abstraction of it, plays a significant role in “Girl Most Likely,” which was written by Michelle Morgan and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Movie Review: In ‘Girl Most Likely,’ Kristen Wiig Has to Go Home Again 2013-07-18T21:25:47Z But the frame remains narrow, the characters and dialogue too generic to make the tragic story resonate as anything more than a dramatized tolerance lesson. Theater Review: ‘Bare,’ Rock Musical, at New World Stages 2012-12-11T22:20:29Z The other two photographers we meet are accomplished, but the film needs streamlining and sharpening, and the same goes for the more generic interview bits. Review: ‘Frame by Frame’ Looks at Four Intrepid Afghan Photojournalists 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Some really exciting, engaged writing here that takes theatre criticism well beyond the generic confines of the newspaper review. Culture coach: the week's essential arts stories 2012-07-20T09:40:00Z But Allen’s vision resists the implication that social anger is generic. A young photographer made the Baltimore Uprising unforgettable 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The Young Woman, whose appropriately generic name is Helen Jones, faces an even greater tyranny of rules and limitations than O’Neill’s and Rice’s hapless men. Theater Review: ‘Machinal’ Examines a Wife Driven to Kill 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z And their white wines largely discard the generic bottles of the past in trade for distinctive wines from specific villages and vineyards. Perspective | Now that cheap chardonnay is everywhere, some French winemakers attempt a reinvention 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Objecting to the presence of tender dinosaurs and talking cats reflects an impulse to keep these films inside familiar generic boxes. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z Yet dances on other programs felt even more generic. Joyce Ballet Festival Spotlights Women, but Only One Dance Stands Out 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Driven in part by the effects of a devastating hurricane, the enormity of its poverty and its isolation from much of the world, Cuba was forced to prioritize a dispiriting, generic and functional architecture. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Does attaching a famous name to a science documentary make it any more or less interesting than a generic “Nova” episode? Review: ‘Breakthough,’ About Scientific Advances That Could Save Lives and Perhaps the Planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In contrast, Grace and Dani are generic action movie archetypes: The soldier and the innocent future prophet. "Terminator: Dark Fate" works 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z An arrangement of the Civil War song “Tenting on the Old Campground” opens the opera on a note of guileless vulnerability that is unrelated to the ensuing three hours of generic music. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The undertow of sexual corruption, innocence bespoiled and generic neurosis leaves you gasping for air. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z But however generic this movie is in premise, there is wit to be found in its details, and warmth in its message. ‘Back to the Outback’ Review: Pest in Show 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But the other songs were fairly generic, and he had no real band to lend him cred. Perspective | David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world — for about two years 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z What made “Send her back” such a horrifying chant was not how specific it was but how generic. Perspective | What do ‘Lock her up’ and ‘Send her back’ have in common? It’s pretty obvious. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Not because it looks like a hopelessly generic horror film. Want an original modern horror film? Don't #Holdyourbreath 2012-08-29T11:04:12Z And the playlist was clearly very carefully combed over for lyrics; I couldn’t find too much to offend anyone, save for the generic inoffensiveness. Dead Tree Alert: The DJ in Chief; or, Running for Office, One Pop Song at a Time 2012-02-16T16:50:45Z The first compared two well-known branded ibuprofen-containing products in the higher price category against three generic products. Do branded painkillers work better than cheaper generic ones? 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Oldenburg’s now-historic installation, “The Store,” had a bluntly generic title that referred to the increasingly commercialized realm of galleries. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Even so, Nichols felt compelled to inject more marketable, generic elements. Mud director Jeff Nichols: 'Mark twain bottled what it felt to be a child' 2013-05-02T17:37:37Z Nothing in the new “Star Trek” improves on those: This just looks like generic junk. “Star Trek Beyond” looks like a corny, frantic mess: This is supposed to distract us from “Star Wars” mania? 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z An entirely new opener for Broadway, “When You’re An Addams,” is more light-hearted and generic, with Mr. Lane giving commands to the dancing family and chorus members: “Bunny hop!” The Critics May Rant, but ?Addams Family? Rakes It In 2010-04-14T01:23:00Z Material this generic requires performers more accustomed to fleshing out stock characterizations than City Ballet dancers are, but they try their best. Dance Review: Susan Stroman’s ‘Double Feature,’ With City Ballet 2012-05-25T21:17:12Z Though it might seem generic in some respects, “Rebuilding Paradise” resonates with the moment. ‘Rebuilding Paradise’ Review: When a Town Burns to the Ground 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z I just did not expect my father’s life and death summed up on a generic yellow sticky note. Miss Manners: Leaving lengthy dinner party requires firm approach 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z His thinking, like the transmogrification, liberation or obliteration of his generic figures, was quietly revolutionary. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Frankly, much of it is generic, bouncy pop-rock, pleasing to the ear and forgotten as soon as it fades out. Review: Chrissie Hynde falls short on solo debut 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z They look like generic interior designs for a modern sushi restaurant. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But the power of the images was consistently undercut by Mr. Einhorn’s generic music, which ranged from cool piano lines to folksy plucked passages to icy drones. Music Review: Bill Morrison and Richard Einhorn’s ‘Shooting Gallery’ 2012-11-11T23:00:07Z Instead he strove to create a generic exploration of a man’s inner life — a tale, he was certain, was destined to be the next Great American Novel. Ayad Akhtar: On Muslim identity, and life in America The move, a first in Europe, would see popular cartoon characters also including Miffy the bunny disappear from generic products perceived as unhealthy that target young children with their packaging. Children's characters may disappear from unhealthy food in Netherlands 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z When G G and Asa get heated over an accusation of wearing — insult of insults — H&M, you find a generic all-American parable of new money and assimilation insanity. Television: The Persian-ness of ?Shahs of Sunset? on Bravo 2012-03-09T23:39:45Z Despite these precedents, the memorial reconfigures old elements in a distinctly new way, and it avoids both the slick and generic symbolism and the Hollywood bathos of many recent American memorials. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The reason why is that it's not generic. Sandra Oh weighs in on acting choices, her new play 'Office Hour' and 'Grey's Anatomy' rumors 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “Do you have to get the generic version?” asks Margot Beausey, a Deloitte consultant who used to be in the Navy and is quick to see comic fodder in practical considerations. For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z |
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