| 单词 | mediocre |
| 例句 | “Fine. We’ll do your idea, then,” Kim said, and when we got a B minus, she seemed to gloat about our mediocre grade. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As Captain Brannon stood in front of Bull’s desk awaiting instructions, Bull thought that it was one of God’s minor vices that such an admirable physical specimen was such a mediocre pilot. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When she finished school, she won admission into a mediocre college of architecture in Delhi. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything is set up, though, the rented thick-stemmed wineglasses, the bottles of mediocre hooch, the mineral water for teetotalers, because who would serve unadulterated chlorine from the tap? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The entire populace knows thousands of songs, and there is hardly a mediocre voice among them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I figured that would speak louder than my mediocre transcripts from Sunrise High School. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I pulled my feelings book from under my pillow, flipped to the current page, and downgraded from desperate to mediocre. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Sharkey said that, after all, she knew the current seventh grade, for she had taught them just last year; and in her opinion, when they were very, very good, they were mediocre. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Berg had been a mediocre ballplayer at best, hitting .243 over fifteen big league seasons as a backup catcher. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a mediocre boardinghouse for penniless students, presided over by a middle-aged couple with a calling for espionage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Trying to appear mediocre in front of the other tributes is the last bit of strategy I remember. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z My grades had always been mediocre, and given that I had never finished eleventh grade, the private schools in San Juan wouldn't accept me as a senior. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She’d come to symbolize everything that was wrong with his mediocre life. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And always waiting, waiting for a decent chance to strike terror and admiration in the nearest mediocre heart. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She tried to get to know me and did a mediocre job of it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe we could share a meal of mediocre cafeteria food. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “It’s not. It means a mediocre hitter in baseball.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Community college,” I say, because it’s all I can afford without a scholarship, and my SAT scores are pretty mediocre. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse’s grades, when the transcript arrived, were mediocre, far below what he seemed capable of. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They said her constant weariness and tears were from her concern over my mediocre studies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Others considered it a gigantic hodgepodge of the great and the mediocre. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet you confide much more in a boy who is incapable of Occlumency, whose magic is mediocre, and who has a direct connection into the Dark Lord’s mind!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a "want of exact knowledge." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “There will never be a mediocre black athlete to play at Permian,” said Hearne. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d spent half a day watching Pelor—and while she only pretended to be mediocre, he truly could use the training. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, “it’s mediocre. And please don’t snoop.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Barbarossa was enthroned in Ida's best armchair like a king forced to watch a bunch of mediocre actors perform. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The child is ‘moderately endowed,’ intellectually mediocre, Hoggart supposes—though it may be more pertinent to note the special qualities of temperament in the child. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he learned to speak a fluent, somewhat eccentric English, his written command of the language was mediocre at best. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Names scattered in a gossip column, authors, artists, actors and their kind, even the mediocre ones, as long as she had learnt of them in print. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Estha finished school with mediocre results, but refused to go to college. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The mediocre American aircraft industry of the 1930s rose to preeminence because of the challenge of World War II. What would it take for the country to prevail against this latest threat? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And yet the Sun is an ordinary, even a mediocre star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was only mediocre with a sewing machine; I did my best work by hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Tommy had always liked spying; maybe this was an opportunity not to be a mediocre kid. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I had a splitting headache and a false smile plastered on my face and managed to give a mediocre performance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Despite Haymitch's order to appear mediocre, Peeta excels in hand-to-hand combat, and I sweep the edible plants test without blinking an eye. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Both my hammock and my attempt to connect with them are mediocre at best. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Case in point: she’s kneeling on the floor, using the keyboard stool as a desk, and every title on her list is a mediocre classic rock song. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-satisfied as was his father before him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He dies there, on the dirty, burgundy carpet of Pizza Hut, for a few sessions of mediocre sex with a used-up who does nails on the weekend for extra cash. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He was mediocre in English, social studies, French, and computer science, and well below average in math and science. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull, mediocre life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then in the everyday, mediocre tone he used when he was proposing something really outrageous, he added, “Let’s go to the beach.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I even raised my attendance from mediocre to perfect. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I participated in sports and games as often as I could, but my performances were no more than mediocre. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever wondered why so many mediocre people find their way into positions of authority in companies and organizations? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He and Tommy had decided back in July that they weren’t going to be mediocre kids. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Roses droop under tons of mythical baggage; they’re overexposed, ardently mediocre. | Floral and Hardy 2011-02-08T20:46:38Z “I’m a mediocre mother like the vast majority of women, because I’m human, I’m not a she-cat,” she said. Cultural Studies: Elisabeth Badinter Defends the Imperfect Mother 2010-06-04T19:00:00Z As for his later novels, they range from mediocre to terrible. The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z “I’m feeling so exotic,” a Bollywood actress sings in a duet with a mediocre American hip-hop star. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z At one level it suggests a stupid, conspiratorial way of thinking, the kind of idiocy that exercises anti-Semites and Q-Anon types, and a lot of mediocre conceptual and political artists. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z That would be plain rude, of course: if a production is dull and mediocre it is seldom the actors' fault. Why is so much theatre so dull? 2013-02-06T14:52:58Z Aaron was a loner and a mediocre student, and it’s unclear if he graduated from high school. Books Of the Times: ?The Last Hero,? Howard Bryant on Henry Aaron 2010-05-09T21:56:00Z Even generally mediocre festivals usually have a few excellent movies, just as even superbly programmed festivals are likely to have some weak offerings. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z There are two restaurants, the Kitchen Table, which serves a range of cuisines and a mediocre breakfast buffet, and Yen, a high-end Chinese restaurant. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: W Taipei 2012-02-03T16:46:24Z When hellebores first hit the scene, the varietal offerings were meager, and, in retrospect, the blooms were mediocre. The hellebore: Popular, early and now in a dazzling variety 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Mine was mediocre, his was much better, but when you’re not used to biking for 19 miles or so, it really doesn’t matter. Los Angeles on $100 a Day 2010-11-15T22:21:00Z So soon we were sipping mediocre, beggars-can’t-be-choosers frozen margaritas, and I was doing what any man surrounded by female Brazilian boxers must: beg for a team T-shirt. Money-Saving Tips for Barbados 2010-09-29T03:00:00Z Men are not content with their lot and nearly all – rich or poor, brilliant or mediocre, famous or obscure – would like to have a life different from the one they lead. Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2010-10-07T13:03:00Z He loves benign and mediocre; he loves his Ford Flex. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z If declaring that a vintage is mediocre can sometimes be a problem, so can the characterization of a year as great. How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The message: “Good is the enemy of great,” don’t settle for a mediocre life. Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon 2013-12-31T12:47:00Z The mediocre knife was no match for the tough root vegetable. 31 best butternut squash recipes for all the fall feels 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Give me mediocre Porter any day compared to half the slop on Broadway today! ‘Can-Can’ Revisits Montmartre at Paper Mill Playhouse 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The STX film follows an insecure woman who suffers a head injury that imbues her with confidence; it was mired by backlash to an early trailer and mediocre reviews. ‘A Quiet Place’ Returns to No. 1 at the Box Office 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z If you write a mediocre screenplay, it can be saved by great acting. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I won’t humor you anymore 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The influence of hip-hop was now so pervasive, it spawned a parade of mediocre rap-rock bands. 5 Bands the NME Lovingly, Relentlessly Championed 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Jobless and alone in New York City, I’d gone from good to mediocre. Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon 2013-12-31T12:47:00Z We're not talking about some mediocre album here, but rather a remarkable bit of serendipity which made neighbours of two musical immigrants – albeit some two centuries apart. In praise of ? Twentysomething Brook Street 2010-08-24T23:05:00Z After a mediocre review in New York Magazine by its restaurant critic, Adam Platt, Mr. McNally responded with a scathing letter. Keith McNally Stirs the Pot 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z I’m not a big fan of the film-critic dodge where you say that some actor delivers a tremendous performance in a bad or mediocre movie. “Still Alice”: Julianne Moore’s pulpy, Oscar-worthy Alzheimer’s role 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z "We were very mediocre, a lightweight band," said Best. Playing "Twist and Shout" with Pete Best 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Yuen’s directorial style and the mediocre computer graphics give the film the picturesque, storybook feel of a Chinese studio production, however. Review: ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny,’ a Fight-Ridden Sequel 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z A dreary list, a compendium of the mediocre and the overpraised. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z He also evolves from a player to devoting himself completely to his “Ace,” which honestly, isn’t that impressive, but in a world that rewards mediocre men for basic good manners, merits him a gold star. A Definitive Ranking of Rory Gilmore's Hapless Boyfriends 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z The day after in Christie’s bigger and slightly better sale, which ran to 62 works, those that were too blatantly mediocre or too wildly overestimated crashed on 16 occasions. When Discourse Has the Upper Hand Over Art 2010-06-25T11:00:00Z They don't want to make us all feel bad about our mediocre thighs. I deserve it because I want it the most. Come on, Sugar! 2010-12-21T19:00:00Z Though a solid defensive player with a good on-base percentage, Fukudome's mediocre numbers and lack of power made him a hard sell for the Cubs. Fukudome goes to Indians 2011-07-29T00:48:00Z I was heartbroken when I split up with my last boyfriend after 16 months, but I quickly realised it saved me from the type of mediocre relationship that Tanner describes. Self-partnered: the sudden, surprising rise of the single positivity movement 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Didn’t I know that those places were for tourists, a bunch of mediocre, overpriced red-sauce joints? Arrivederci, Little Italy 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Conventional wisdom ascribes Taft’s mediocre performance to his weak political skills and passive personality, but Mr. Rosen also cites Taft’s philosophy of government. ‘William Howard Taft’ Review: Taking the Bully Out of the Pulpit 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z “Spectacularly mediocre” is the most apt way to describe this new fall slate, host to a number of shows that are long on flash and short on feeling. TCA Report: The Fall TV outlook for the broadcast networks isn’t pretty 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Not only was he the richest man in the world, but his monolithic and monopolistic enterprise was based on a mediocre product with built in buggy obsolescence. When Apple took over 2012-10-14T15:00:00Z Because we just have so much mediocre Black leadership, just like you got mediocre White leadership. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Even mediocre film versions of Matheson are more absorbing than they might first appear. The scary delights of Richard Matheson 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I get ideas and I pay my respects because — despite a truly mediocre showing of all that the Seattle food scene is — what the chefs are doing on this show takes guts and stamina. How Seattle is ‘Top Chef: Seattle’? 2013-02-27T15:41:10Z RIP Princess Diana, whose death paved the way for Helen Mirren’s Oscar but also inspired a mediocre Naomi Watts vehicle. The Carpetbagger: Whisper Campaigns and Out-Loud Tweets 2013-12-06T19:12:16Z Or how “The White Queen” got nominated for best miniseries when it’s mediocre at best. One critic’s picks for the 66th Emmy Awards 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The mediocre ones, to paraphrase a remark usually credited to Picasso, merely copy what they purchase. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z If it's mediocre, some people will buy it, or it could be great and nobody will get it. Neil Young: 'You don't want to OD on music' 2012-10-04T19:00:01Z A good show that lets you down can be more frustrating than one that’s mediocre from the start. In Sharr White's 'Stupid Kid,' a family grapples with the past, the audience with disappointment 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Good wine will still be good consumed from tumblers, but even the best glasses won’t help a mediocre bottle. Everyday Wines: The Most Important Bottles You Will Drink 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Yet a mediocre movie that exploits a significant topic may nonetheless reveal something of importance about it. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z When someone of mediocre gifts does his best, you may wince but you have to applaud his persistence and determination. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z With help from her spoiled husband, her kooky sister-in-law and a comically righteous nun, Paulette teaches young women the keys to being a good wife: obedience, discretion, economy, tolerance for mediocre sex. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z It was NOT worth the $13 for a mediocre pizza - and even though they don't take cash, there was still a considerable wait for the pizza to be ready. Can Fancy Chefs Excel at Fast, Cheap Food? Two Case Studies 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Along with her genius for physical comedy and deadpan inflection — “don’t get me started,” she’d intone, as the mediocre stand-up Jeannie Darcy — Shannon has an uncanny knack for transgression in pursuit of higher truth. Molly Shannon’s Memoir Is Filled With Mischief and Pathos 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z At 37, a struggling, mediocre violinist with no partner and no real estate, she wonders what she’s going to do with her life. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z The experience raised a natural question: Are big-production wines necessarily mediocre at best? Back to the Supermarket: Looking for the Good 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z On our first date we went to a mediocre but okay restaurant. Carolyn Hax: She doesn’t trust fiance to tell her the truth 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Even so, a mediocre pastel de nata is better than none. A week-long pastry hunt for the best little egg tart in Portugal 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z It's usually enough to make mediocre flicks palatable, and passable fancies outright enjoyable. The magical magnetism of Mads Mikkelsen 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z But mediocre reviews, along with a B CinemaScore, doesn’t bode well for its future in multiplexes. Box Office: 'Ford v Ferrari' Races to First Place, 'Charlie's Angels' Collapses 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z But, as mediocre as it was, the night seemed to be enjoyed by at least one man wading in the gooey blandness. 2015 Grammys: One dark night of the soul 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Champagnes from some big houses are great and from others mediocre, and the same is true with the grower-producers. Rosé Champagne Brings the Holiday Joy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z A great perk of working from home is being able to avoid sad salads at your desk or mediocre meal deals. The golden hour: 15 ways to change your life in a work-from-home lunch break 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z "Astronaut Wives Club" roughly equaled the ratings for two heavily promoted entries that endured mediocre early performance, NBC's '60s murder mystery "Aquarius" and Fox's thriller "Wayward Pines." 'Astronaut Wives Club' premiere touches down with so-so ratings 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Videocracy is a fascinating film, indicative of the new wave of scorn and revulsion felt by a younger generation of Italians for Berlusconi's smug and mediocre rule. Film review: Videocracy 2010-06-23T21:20:00Z Scott called it a “thoroughly mediocre movie” with “a surprisingly hackish script.” ‘Rogue One’ Reviews: Here’s What the Critics Say 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Horrid ones include mediocre guys playing acoustic guitars, wearing waistcoats over T-shirts, butchering every song released in the last three decades. The best covers turn a song on its head: a whole new slice of life, right there | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead of making a mediocre star vehicle, they make an actively bad movie. The Weird Problem with “Focus” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Yahoo will end up with more mediocre employees. Jolie signs up Coen brothers 2013-02-26T13:13:14Z Bromiley, who acquired three films there, called it "a very mediocre market." After Toronto, small film world primes for peak viewing season 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z We would drop our children off in the morning and walk around the corner to drink mediocre brew and forge connections at Nectar Cafe. Motherlode Blog: Breast Feeding Killed My Focus on Work. I Don’t Miss It. 2013-06-04T20:39:57Z Insecure, lonely Amber insists that she only got into Princeton because she was competing against other mediocre female squash players. Sex, consent, gender, race: A potent cocktail in 'Actually' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s the type of action that seems mundane in a crime series, but in fact separates the mediocre from the transcendent. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 5: Seeing Naz in a New Light 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z A commercial success, “Son of Frankenstein” jump-started a new, mediocre cycle of Universal horror films. In ‘The Black Cat,’ the Titans of Terror, Karloff and Lugosi, Face Off 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In between, though, she had to take a series of mediocre roles in mediocre movies, and critics came to view her as a star who was perpetually kept away from realizing her full potential. Stella Stevens, Hollywood Bombshell Who Yearned for More, Dies at 84 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z The great American mezzo-soprano was singing the role of Amneris for the first time in the house, and she single-handedly elevated a mediocre performance into a memorable night at the opera. Stephanie Blythe redeems mediocre Met `Aida' 2012-02-10T19:58:10Z "Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony," the president wrote in March. Donald Trump can't forgive "Saturday Night Live" for not loving him back 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Reboots of mediocre so-called classics get made with women in the leading roles and, often under men’s direction and studio supervision, improve the rancid source material incrementally. The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the Decade 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z 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 you can learn a lot about a great work from a mediocre production — not all of it bad. Critic?s Notebook: Reconsidering ?Lobby Hero? by Kenneth Lonergan 2011-11-06T22:45:44Z “You could just be mediocre at it and still try, and I’m not.” ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It is better to date losers than cool guys, Violet says, because the love of a superior woman can lift a mediocre man toward better things. Movie Review: ?Damsels in Distress,? From Whit Stillman 2012-04-05T12:00:00Z “Larry Sanders” was an extremely funny TV show about a mediocre TV show produced by characters grappling with its mediocrity. A TV Comic Invites a Young Staffer to His Country House. Then Something Funny Doesn’t Happen. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Just as a good performance can uplift a mediocre film, a bad performance can ruin a good one. The worst film performances of 2022 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Chile once seemed to export a lot of cheap, mediocre wines from big companies, interspersed with the occasional polished trophy bottle, mostly from familiar international grapes. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z That corollary is the power of great directors to turn mediocre, stiff, and charisma-deprived actors—or even utter amateurs—into great actors for the duration of a single movie. Last Film, Best Film? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z He is in his own description, an “abysmal journalist at worst, slightly above mediocre at best.” “This is not what a rapist looks like”: How this student’s defensive rant misses the point about sexual consent 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Even mediocre “Goldbergs” episodes usually feature one or two scenes at the level of the game night repartee. Comfort Viewing: Why I Still Love ‘The Goldbergs’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Because I think it's very important at the beginning to pick and choose excellent products, because even if you are a genius in cooking, if you start with mediocre ingredients, the outcome will be mediocre. "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z She gets along by not threatening the men — keeping her expectations low, her comments flattering and her work mediocre. Review: ‘What We’re Up Against,’ a Sexism Story More Timely Than Ever 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The secret to transforming your eggs from mediocre to stellar is one simple ingredient: cooking fat. This is the best cooking fat for making the fluffiest scrambled eggs ever 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z America, if you want to elevate a mediocre dancer, why don't you vote for the ones who brings a little light into our lives every week? "Dancing with the Stars" recap: In defense of Niecy 2010-04-20T12:21:00Z Despite mediocre reviews, it was a huge hit, earning $300 million worldwide, one of the most successful sports movies of the Cold War period. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Growth of 40 percent over seven years is mediocre for many businesses and could get a C.E.O. fired from a large apparel firm. It’s the Economy: What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? 2012-09-05T03:19:28Z Rumblings of a tough year for touring began a couple of months ago, with predictions ranging from "mediocre" to "bloodbath." Musicians hit by brutal summer on concert circuit 2010-06-17T07:44:00Z In another of her essay collections, “Karaoke Culture,” she writes about fan fiction, outsider artists, and mediocre YouTube stars. Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Compared to Rockbitch and Tribe 8's bold, provocative forerunners, Butcher Babies' stage antics seem tame, and drained of any real challenge or danger – elements that can transform mediocre live spectacle into pulse-quickening experiences. The 'slut rock' of Butcher Babies pales next to music's true female adventurers 2012-07-05T14:16:37Z I’m sure anything JJ touches will be the best mediocre possible. JJ Johnson Is a Young Chef on the Rise, to a Hip-Hop Beat 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z In the voicemail, Chase calls "Community" a "mediocre sitcom" that "is not my kind of comedy." Leaked voicemails depict rift on 'Community' 2012-04-10T21:29:48Z What was fascinating to me was that all of my boys loved it too, despite the mediocre graphics and the love story. Who’s Your Wingman Now? Pushing the Envelope With ‘Top Gun’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z This, he assures me, will be a mediocre interview. Privacy settings engaged 2010-10-14T21:00:00Z A mediocre performance was “cabaret,” or “something you’d hear on a cruise ship.” The End of ‘American Idol,’ TV’s Last Cultural Big Tent 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z As for those who don’t—their films used to seem merely adequate and mediocre; now they seem oppressive, reactionary, and destructive. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Will the groundbreaking animation studio, who managed such an impressive run over the four years between Ratatouille and Toy Story 3, now slink into mediocre middle age with a slew of insipid sequels? Pixar's new films: dinosaurs, Muppets and the human mind 2011-08-22T13:10:59Z There has been a handful of hits, usually involving musicians— Ray , Walk the Line —but that's probably because the music can rescue a mediocre script, and audiences will pay to see a non-singing actor warble. 2010-02-12T02:12:00Z But mediocre exhibitions that cater only to the fame of the work or the artist are worse: They are a lost opportunity. Review | George W. Bush isn’t a bad artist. But he doesn’t deserve a show at the Kennedy Center. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z This is a mediocre revenge drama which looks like nothing more than the TV movie of the week. Three Billboards the film of the moment – but Gerwig and Get Out deserved more 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Hammerstein's lyrics, he writes, could be verbose and nonsensical; Lorenz Hart was "mediocre", Irving Berlin's worldview "banal" and Noël Coward "posturing". Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z There have, historically, been more bad “Grammy moments” duets than good ones, and more mediocre ones than either. 'Grammy Moments' Are the Worst Thing About the Grammys 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z And there’s a lot of mediocre beer in Germany these days. Bamberg, Germany: A city of just 70,000 people but nine breweries 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Television shows are reboots of long-done ideas, films are all remakes or sequels, and songs are a mishmash of decade-old mediocre hits. At the Met Gala, old clothes are the newest thing 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Or at least not a mediocre, sometimes off-key singing group. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Paula Abdul Avoids Being the Bad Guy 2011-11-11T13:40:09Z With all of this happening, at least we can thank everything that is holy that NBC cancelled their planned revival of mediocre 90s sitcom Coach. Muppets, Heroes, X-Files: why we're stuck in the season of the reboot 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z In another time, the Menendez murders were the stuff of mediocre made-for-TV movies, the kind that were told in two hours, tops. Review | ‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Worst of all- the faux-bands play faux music that lacks any vitality- lower than mediocre. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 5: Hannibal’s Anagrams 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z When the other judges said yes, and he said no, he was painted as a grouch and the contestant – often a mediocre singer – was somehow ennobled. ArtsBeat: American Idol: Notes on Pity 2011-01-27T06:39:07Z With his ability to fall up, Joel is the quintessential mediocre man. The dark side of Joel on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Turns out, not only is much of the food served in stadiums across the country achingly mediocre and absurdly expensive, it's often also dangerous to eat. What dangers lurk in your stadium food? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z I guess we just have to settle for a mediocre group of winners to help fuel sales for a dying industry. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z But so, I think that if she is actually a mediocre poet that's not that good, the movie's way easier to watch. Maggie Gyllenhaal on playing “starving” women: “The way many women are feeling right now” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The next year, the academy gave best picture to “Green Book,” a mediocre movie that sentimentalizes race relations. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z We shared two mediocre pizzas, two pitchers of watery margaritas and were very happy. Beach holiday tragedy 2011-08-05T22:01:58Z Out are all-night bidding wars and the kind of adrenaline-fueled purchases that led to mediocre titles selling for sky-high prices. 2010-01-30T05:14:00Z Every few weeks a new article appears, lamenting how mediocre paintings, almost exclusively by young men, are being flipped by unscrupulous collectors. Art in Review: Jackie Saccoccio 2014-05-09T01:39:52Z On the whole, it is a loving and imaginative resurrection of a decidedly mediocre work. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It is a game at which addicts play even when the tokens are utterly mediocre. Auctions: Art Buying Spree at a British Estate 2011-09-16T13:30:07Z Now, it is mediocre to inferior compared to the number of really good to outstanding shows it's competing with. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Finale: Our Struggle 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z There’s none of the amplitude, the imaginative energy of his best work or even the interesting surliness of his more mediocre efforts. A Novelist’s Requiem for the Male Libido 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Attendance, just over 21,000 fans per game, is mediocre but rising: The team ranks 24th in baseball through its first 34 home dates, up three spots from last year. Baseball's Best General Manager 2010-06-15T15:40:00Z I headed to CVS to get some DayQuil for Nancy, who had picked up Anna’s chest cold, then stopped for a mediocre Cuban lunch. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z His father, who had penned one mediocre novel, was adamant: Write if you must, but journalism and nonfiction. Writer Joe McGinniss Jr. follows in his famous father’s footsteps, with a novel twist 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z But perhaps there’s another way to approach this stretch of much-too-much TV, and instead categorize the shared qualities that separated the decade’s very best shows from the heap of mediocre ones. Perspective | The best TV of the decade? It’s a lot to sort out. 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z As an investment adviser, he’s been mediocre at best. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z When the movie opened, in 1987, it didn’t tank at the box office, but it didn’t take off, either—the kind of mediocre performance that dooms most movies to three-for-ten-dollar bins at drugstores. “The Princess Bride,” the Movie that Won the Internet 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z But that’s where Jeep finds itself, ranking 13th in Consumer Reports’ annual reliability survey with a mediocre rating of “average.” Jeep Is Most Reliable Domestic Car Brand; Ford Tumbles 2011-10-25T21:00:59Z Yet the show, a disconnected suite of mediocre hip-hop routines riddled with baffling elements, seemed less about that process than still involved in it, and at an early, inchoate stage. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z In this formulation, “genre” is a pejorative adjective for any kind of mediocre writing rather than a designation for nonliterary styles, and can easily refer to mediocre fiction that happens to carry “literary” markers. Emily St. John Mandel Is Back, With a Ponzi Scheme Instead of a Pandemic 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z She remembered calling her father to discuss the possibility of switching to a career “where it’s possible to be mediocre.” Her Book Is About Belonging. She’s Struggling With the Idea. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z After a few lackluster to mediocre sets, I lingered in the lobby with the jellyfish, my friend Ada, my most faithful human companion at shows before the pandemic. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z “If mediocre Harry Potter fans like us bought so much, just think what the real fans will do,” Isobel said. Studio Tour Casts Spells Like Harry Potter 2012-03-30T10:32:28Z Her evaluation isn’t what struck me, though it’s a fine example of how to dissect a mediocre text sharply but not cruelly. Invisibility, a Hippo and Antiques 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z For the waiting passengers, “refreshments” were mediocre and scant. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Ticket sales, like the reviews, were mediocre at best, with roughly 55 percent of its seats going unsold. Tupac Shakur musical 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' to close 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z A wanderer passing through those aggregators would walk away with the impression that she was mediocre, like most of the pop stars who briefly light up the musical firmament before evaporating from memory. I demand a critical reappraisal of Kesha’s brilliant, brilliant music 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Conversely, mediocre whites ought to be served ice-cold; the temperature masks any flaws. Five Common Wine Myths, Debunked 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z All they have done is to make many more mediocre writers just competent enough to get published. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z And yet, Lebon went on, the idea behind the work “is narcissistic. If they were mediocre photos, the whole thing would look terrible. But they happen to be brilliant.” The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z You can't get the 5 minutes of your life back, but would you even want to if you spent it eating mediocre fries when greatness was so achievable? The absolute best way to cook french fries, according to so many tests 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Formerly of Blue, Lee is a successful pop singer with a mediocre solo career, a history of reality television and a fondness for the sound of his own voice. Who should be the next X Factor judge? 2010-05-13T14:22:00Z “I don’t want to put in any mediocre restaurants,” she said. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Bernard Darwin's "The Wooden Putter" tells how a mediocre golfer flashes talent when he has total confidence in the club in his hand. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z Maleficent was Jolie’s first film in four years, and the actress proved that she can still carry even mediocre movies to box office success. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z A place where “mediocre people get outsized opportunities,” she tells the camera. ‘Honor Society’ Review: Ivy League Strategist’s Cynical Shell Is Cracked 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z This must have been deeply dispiriting, especially as she was aware, we now know, of how mediocre the films MGM put her into were. Elizabeth Taylor remembered by Philip French 2011-03-27T00:08:05Z The story is mediocre and formulaic, yes, but pleasantly so. ‘I Want You Back’ Review: Scheming Hearts 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Seeing Mr. Taylor’s masterpieces next to his mediocre work makes the idea of seeing his masterpieces next to masterpieces by others sound tempting. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Evening Includes ‘Sunset’ and ‘Gossamer Gallants’ 2014-03-19T20:08:21Z The first two Harry Potter movies slavishly followed the books and were mediocre at best. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “In mediocre performances,” Mr. Andsnes said in a recent interview, “great pieces of Chopin’s seem mediocre.” Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z One former Eger client ended up in jail; he reworked 1940s Viennese catalogs to create fake provenance trails for mediocre paintings. Antiques: Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance 2014-01-30T22:37:18Z But Mr. Mitchell told me he’d still give the Columbus food scene two-and-a-half stars out of five, not because it’s mediocre, but because he sees so much potential. An Awakening in Columbus, a Reckoning in Williamsburg 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z The fashion this week is mediocre at best. 2010-01-29T14:30:00Z And even if she would be narcissistic no one would even care or listen, just because of the fact that she's visually unattractive and intellectually and economically just way too mediocre. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But in sum, it's mediocre, including minor examples by major artists. National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z I mean, donating a building — one with your family's venerable name on it — to coerce a school to admit your mediocre kid is a time honored practice. The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Many ethnic cuisines deploy cunning spices and sauces to enliven mediocre ingredients. Books of The Times: ?An Economist Gets Lunch,? by Tyler Cowen 2012-04-10T15:38:44Z In response, Trump tweeted that Baldwin’s “dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me” and that it was “agony for those who were forced to watch.” Playing Trump on ‘S.N.L.,’ Baldwin Takes On White House Turmoil 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Though regularly praising “mediocre scribblers,” he unsurprisingly “harboured resentments about the fame of real writers.” Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’ Those paying attention would notice that it generally made good on its principles with a slate that — good, dutiful or mediocre — was striking for its plurality of voices. At Sundance, Films Filled With Fury, Propelled by Outsiders 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z I’ve got the enthusiasm, the belly, the kids, the endlessly patient wife, and, after years on the hops train, I’ve settled on mediocre yellow beer. Before I Was Homer, I Was Bart 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s Murder “Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas” is the theatrical equivalent of a mediocre holiday movie. Theater Review: ‘Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas’ at St. Clement’s 2012-12-05T21:59:34Z A month and a half ago the Giants were mediocre. A Nonfan?s Guide to the Key to the Super Bowl 2012-02-02T23:28:04Z This line emphasizes everything that is both right and wrong with director Ty Roberts' wholly mediocre film. Aw, shucks! "12 Mighty Orphans" is the Depression-era underdog sports hokum you've been missing 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It alternates between mediocre new footage of “Revelations,” partially shot in the gardens of Wave Hill in the Bronx, and rare and glorious bits from a 1962 television special. The Ailey Company Meets the Challenge of This Lost Season 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Same with mediocre theater evenings in New York City. Social Q?s: Stand Up and Be Counted 2011-10-06T20:50:39Z As Venom growls, “Responsibility is for the mediocre.” ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Review: The One-Man Odd Couple Returns 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Every episode of SNL has two or three good sketches, some mediocre sketches and some awful sketches. Alan Davies eats humble pie over Hillsborough, BBC lifts lid on comedy 2012-09-25T17:29:44Z "I had a very mediocre image of myself, so I was amazed and very pleased." Remembering "The Two and Only" Jane Russell: 1921-2011 2011-03-04T09:05:00Z Though “Last Man Standing” remains hopelessly mediocre, it’s worth taking a moment to put yourself in someone else’s recliner and imagine that every show on TV runs counter to your perception of the world. Review | ‘Last Man Standing’ returns, sporting the same chip on its conservative shoulder 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Worse, in a "meat and potatoes" culture, most residents have little familiarty with authentic Mexican cooking, and rave about what really amounts to mediocre fare. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Of course the advantage of showdowns with hit men is that they distract from mediocre writing. 'Midnight Sun' is a softer, gentler Jo Nesbø - as far as that goes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z This sort of narrative can tip, very easily, into a crude outline for a mediocre Tom Cruise or Matt Damon movie. Book Review: ‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ May Be the Novel of the Summer 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In these days of too much TV overpopulated by mediocre stories that could play out just as well in half the time, here is one series you may never want to end. The must-see "Pachinko" is a pure and flawless beauty about the unpredictability of living 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z These guys take on the aliens with a mix of improvised weapons, BMX bikes, mopeds and parkour moves, and it's reasonably good fun even if Cornish's action scenes are just above mediocre. "Attack the Block": Aliens in the hood, London-style 2011-07-29T19:30:00Z Terra Nova barely rose above mediocre, despite everyone’s best efforts; and Utopia looked and felt like every other cheap reality competition, despite how much its custom-built location cost. From Supertrain to The Crown: TV's most expensive shows ever 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Obviously the rich white people of the academy couldn't appreciate true groundbreaking work, and instead awarded ever mediocre movie whatever title they could. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The government says the legislation targets offensive and mediocre content. Cuban indie artists challenge government at Havana arts biennial 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z In return, Hollywood paid him handsomely for a while but treated him without respect and made mediocre movies of his books. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z After 6 years without an obvious record of promotions, it suggests that a person is unambitious and, while not so terrible as to be unable to keep a job, thoroughly mediocre. How Long Should Someone Stay at a Job? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s often what separates a good sketch show from a mediocre sketch show.” How to best end a comedy sketch? It’s hard to go wrong with gruesome death. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z This odd gamble of an episode didn’t pan out, but if next week’s installment is a return to form, we’ll all forget about it: Even Don has written a few mediocre taglines. 'Mad Men' Recap: Misplaced Nostalgia 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The film, with its mediocre box office receipts, served as a launching pad for the star Al Pacino’s career, but didn’t do much for hers. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Their explosive sensibility and style are as far removed from mediocre prose and middle-class manners as you can imagine. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The show is pleasantly and forgettably mediocre for the few minutes before Brook bounces in, delivering each of her lines in a way that is only ever grating. ‘One Big Happy’ and ‘Undateable’: Why one sitcom stinks and the other doesn’t 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Yet, what has given “S.N.L.” the ability to be at once mediocre and vital is the fact that it still airs live on network television. The Nine Lives of “Saturday Night Live” 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z She attacked the artists as mediocre and concluded a New York Times op-ed piece: “Raise the level. We need more connoisseurs of culture.” Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z This deficiency might cause a producer to add sugar, as in sweet commercial fruit wines, or to doctor a mediocre chardonnay with oak flavors. From Wild Blueberries and Maine Terroir, Fine Sparkling Wine 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z I get giddy at the thought of watching a mediocre band play an early afternoon slot on the third stage of a minor festival. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The ASCE’s last infrastructure report graded US’s roads with a D, saying close to a third of the country’s 4m miles of roads were in poor or mediocre condition. Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America's crumbling infrastructure 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z After 35 years and six increasingly mediocre movies, the “Predator” franchise has long since exhausted its ideas and probably its audience. ‘Prey’ Review: Alien vs. Warrior 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z "But if you have got something mediocre, the middle of the market is being really squeezed and you shouldn't be selling." 2010-02-04T16:46:00Z The moderators didn’t follow up to find out whether, had the child turned out to be merely mediocre, Trump would have remained pro-choice. They’re all Todd Akin now: How the Planned Parenthood sting backfired on Republicans 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Such dark suspicions were voiced last year, when Netflix’s masterly Roma was pipped to best picture by the mediocre Green Book. A female director Oscar? Three ways to fix film awards season 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z After reading a string of seriously mediocre contemporary novels, I’m relieved to be in the hands of a high-summer master. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Paul McCartney to ‘Puss in Boots’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Because for the longest time, he was worse than mediocre. Review | Vincent van Gogh’s early work was mediocre. This exhibition shows how he became great. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z After 1,800 locations, to be that consistently mediocre is unbelievable. Panda Express Takes a Second Run at New York 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Another discredited theory is that the mediocre, muddled followup to any Oscar-winning film deserves a choice spot in the Cannes competition. The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z She began to see Lisa not as a mediocre poet, but as a woman whose creativity is stifled because no one expects her to produce anything worthwhile. Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Please, someone explain to me ... why can I eat a half-dozen mediocre donuts --excluding non-donut shop stuff, of course -- but only one absolutely unforgettable one? Doughnuts in New York City from Carpe Donut NYC to Pies 'N' Thighs 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z The better a restaurant’s view, the more mediocre its food. In South Africa, Whale Watching Is a Waiting Game (With Penguins) 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Later in the ’50s she drifted into mediocre melodramas and even a western. Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The films are equally mediocre; McConaughey’s performances are consistently better than the material. Failure to relaunch: Matthew McConaughey needs another McConaissance 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Despite surprisingly mediocre grades, he was nonetheless admitted to Harvard as a kind of legacy student — and nearly flunked out as a freshman. T.S. Eliot’s American childhood 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Even in less pricey cities, we are seeing $15 glasses of mediocre wine. Is New York Too Expensive for Restaurateurs? We Do the Math 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z The writing and sometimes acting goes from bad to worst to bad to mediocre back to bad. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z "The mediocre, rational world is my enemy," he declares. Thomas Vinterberg – back in The Hunt 2012-11-22T20:00:01Z Haley was a mediocre student who never finished college. Review: In ‘Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation,’ a Reputation Made and Lost 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z A few years ago, he went for it, renting an apartment in the Marais, trying out his mediocre language skills. Darren Star Finds Sex in Another City With ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z It provides users with a free and easy way to organise and share photos and it's a firm favourite with everyone from professional photographers to friends who insist on snapping every mediocre moment. How do I swap Apple for Android? Your tech questions answered 2012-12-16T00:05:35Z I am a mediocre guitar player, played violin as a very young child and wrote a novel about a Bieber-esque pop star. Solstice Serenades in New York City for Make Music Winter 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It really is hard to tell: Recently, Sandra Bullock’s “Bird Box” became a viral hit, despite being mediocre. ‘You’ was ignored on Lifetime. Then it blew up on Netflix. What does it mean for TV’s future? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z You get to see the shows before anyone else and then sort the good from the bad, finding that most are one of the infinite shades of mediocre. Perspective | I’m signing off as TV critic, but here are six shows I’d happily watch again 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Some are mediocre, and some are sweet pink confections like the white zinfandels of the 1970s and ’80s. American Rosés Without Clichés 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s what I imagine ladies who lunch eat, but I’d rather spend my money on crab than a mediocre salad. Cook your way through spring with these 5 main ingredients 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z And what's with a truly mediocre cast of Brits trying to be Americans? Golden Globe Awards Winners Include ‘Boyhood’ and ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z Extraordinary performances in mediocre movies about famous and infamous people aren't unusual; the aforementioned "La Vie en Rose" proves this. Hulu's irksome "United States vs. Billie Holiday" is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z His father, an impoverished intellectual, taught at a mediocre grammar school that had the misfortune to be not far from Marlborough College, an elite private school. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Rotten Tomatoes described it as "Harmlessly hokey yet never much more than mediocre." “Hocus Pocus” knew what really scared us: reckless parents 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z And there isn’t a market for these creative writing graduates’ in most cases mediocre lucubrations. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z Dare to dawdle; to create without purpose; to be mediocre, even outright bad, at whatever it is you want to try. Can I Hold Out Hope That My Best Creative Years Are Still to Come? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z But his routine pokes fun at a popular alternative to the nepo baby route — the overconfidence of the mediocre white man. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z So listen up, potential filmmakers: Here are the four things you need to know in order to avoid making a mediocre reboot of a horror classic. The four things horror movie remakes get wrong 2011-08-17T15:59:00Z Give me mediocre Porter any day compared to half the slop on Broadway today! ‘Can-Can’ Revisits Montmartre at Paper Mill Playhouse 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z And in some respects, they're not entirely wrong: there is plenty of mindless out there because there's plenty of TV in general, be it stultifying or mediocre or brilliant. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Advocates say it ensures quality; a growing minority of drinkers reject that claim, insisting it’s just marketing for mediocre beer. Bamberg, Germany: A city of just 70,000 people but nine breweries 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Yet the six wines we tasted for the exploration, all cabernet-based, were gorgeous, evocative, complex and elegant, not at all what one might have predicted going by the general depictions of a mediocre year. How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The “Star Spangled Banner” transformed the mediocre results of the war into a national triumph. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z This year, as of April, board members had contributed $1.9 million outside of special events, a mediocre amount for a New York cultural institution of City Opera’s size. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z While the vaults of the great London collections are stuffed with unseen, surplus art, the provinces must bear their mediocre walls with provincial shame, and charge people to look at them. As they bow to London's arts mafiosi, the Tories still handcuff the provinces 2010-10-21T19:02:00Z But it’s always more interesting to see what a good producer does with a mediocre vintage than it is to prioritize the vintage. Your Next Lesson: Value Bordeaux 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I puffed up with American pride - Seth Kugel, nice, former mediocre Little League third baseman in the 1980s, would surely save the day - and stepped up to the plate as the girls cheered. Frugal Traveler Blog: Touring a Danish Island on Two Wheels 2012-06-19T20:55:58Z On the other hand, "Amazing Grace," the new musical about the man who wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, has been struggling at the Broadway box office since opening last month to mediocre reviews. 'Hamilton' musical making a mint on Broadway 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z In one message the actor is heard saying Community was a "mediocre sitcom" and accusing Harmon of not understanding "what it is I do that's funny". Chase leaves US sitcom Community 2012-11-22T10:42:33Z You have a lot of great, big plans for your future and getting sidetracked by a mediocre relationship isn’t one of them. Why it’s so hard to win you over, based on your Myers-Briggs Personality Type 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Others are surprisingly mediocre despite their famous names. 10 Sparkling Wines for Leaving 2020 Behind 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z "In general it was a bit of a mediocre audition." X Factor tops first Strictly show 2012-09-16T14:46:19Z Moe Berg played 15 mostly unremarkable seasons as a catcher in the majors for various teams, retiring in 1939 with a mediocre career batting average of .243 and a paltry six home runs. Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Galadriel learns the danger of trusting a certain trope of man, the mediocre ones who fall up and will drag you down with them. "The Rings of Power" shows us a new side of Middle-earth: girlfriends 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The power to leave a mediocre relationship, to freeze your eggs, to ignore the societal pressure—still very present—to just get married already. Stop telling single women they’re fabulous! 2014-02-05T13:00:00Z Here in 2019, some of us are drowning luxuriously in new content, trying to sort the impressive from the merely mediocre and carry on a discussion about an ever-elevating art form. Perspective | Do you really want to live in a world where ‘Friends’ and ‘The Office’ are TV’s most valuable shows? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Gyllenhaal can console himself in knowing that he’s not alone – the below actors have suffered similar fates after undergoing crazy transformations for mediocre movies. Don't go changing: actor transformations that weren't worth the effort 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z That level of critical response alone made “M3gan” something of a triumph: When it comes to well-worn movie concepts, the killer doll is right up there with “mediocre guy attracts supermodel.” ‘M3gan’ Beats Box Office Predictions, Sailing Into Second Place 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The liberal counterpart to a movie of explicit Christian advocacy such as “War Room” is the righteous-cause movie, whether a mediocre one, such as “Pride,” or an excellent one, such as “Selma.” The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z As a music video, Telephone is thoroughly mediocre. The coming of Gaga-ism 2010-03-20T11:00:00Z “So I became a very mediocre pianist who knew a huge amount of music.” Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z As certain friends are happy to remind me, I've definitely overpraised some of his mediocre outings. "Hereafter": Clint sees dead people 2010-10-15T18:45:00Z I’m wearing a too-big red dress stitched together by a very mediocre tailor in Senegal more than a decade ago. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s hard to argue, from a biographical standpoint, with the attention given to career-making but mediocre films like “Good Morning, Vietnam,” “Dead Poets Society” and “Awakenings.” Review: A Serious Look at the Life of Robin Williams 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s dispiriting enough that we’re importing mediocre revivals of American musicals, for God’s sake. To Be Topical in a Time Out of Joint 2010-02-17T22:13:00Z Tin ear dialogue, Jar Jar Binks’ perceived minstrelsy, and mediocre acting led to fan furor. After years of stewing, “Star Wars” fandom goes to the dark side 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Walter is a mediocre artist — if that — but he does have a genius for self-promotion. ‘Big Eyes’ Casts Another Side of Keane Art 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z My grades were mediocre, and my parents were worried about my prospects. Dungeons & Dragons Saved My Life 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The result may be good, or bad, or mediocre, and you can love or hate Jesse Eisenberg’s performance for any number of reasons. Batman v Superman: no version of the characters can be right or wrong 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s ultimately a movie — one of the most rigorous and thoughtful I’ve seen — about the ethical and existential traps our fame-crazed culture sets for the talented and the mediocre alike. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z And yet here she is, surrounded by waves of thoroughly mediocre writers, many of whom probably think of themselves the same way. A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z ABC is struggling with "Selfie," a satire of social media, which opened to a mediocre audience of 5.3 million, then dropped 26% in Week 2. Broadcast networks encouraged by better than expected ratings 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In the face of a current spate of mediocre climate change productions it could be easy to settle once again on this reductive conclusion. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z The best way to render movies mediocre is to subsidize them. The Creative Class and the Movies 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z At present there is too much duplication and me-too-ism in publishing due to the number of larger businesses, with too many publishers saturating niches with mediocre product, feeding their own machines' needs. Penguin Random House merger begins a new chapter for publishing 2013-01-07T15:11:37Z “He used to say, ‘I am a very mediocre painter for the reason that I don’t want to die. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Whether “Les Bosquets” is a disaster, a success or simply mediocre, it is a gamble that helps redefine the notion of collaboration. From the Bleak Streets to the Ballet Stage 2014-04-28T21:45:28Z “You have to take those risks or all you’re ever going to be is mediocre,” she said. The brave one: why Jodie Foster is Hollywood’s ultimate survivor 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Both are also given to pursuing grandiose fables of agonized American manhood, and sometimes find themselves fighting uphill battles against mediocre material. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z And hit or flop, The A-Team is the best of show in a mediocre lineup of early-summer action films. A B-Plus for The A-Team 2010-06-12T19:55:00Z Lots of sex, mediocre writing that is still better than network television, great actors that make it work. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Both the United States and Britain are currently being run by mediocre, unqualified men and women who failed upward despite their lack of qualifications. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Ryan’s combination of brains, brawn and schoolboy rectitude, best embodied in the films by Chris Pine in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” is the carrot that pulls you through the mostly mediocre features. Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Focusing on the things it thinks will work may mean the good content keeps flowing while the mediocre stuff drops off without anyone noticing. Netflix is losing subscribers and firing workers, but it’s far from doomed 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z However competent they are at television, they do a mediocre job of presenting the excitement of live theater — and especially its excellence. Unscripted or Not, the Tonys Were Mostly Predictable 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s a whole lot easier to make a lot of mediocre television. Hank Stuever on whether AMC is in a rut While the movie itself was mediocre, the experience of watching a movie uninterrupted was glorious. Motherlode: Dad Travels for Work 2011-03-23T21:48:09Z The contestants turned in equally mediocre performances, going sharp, going flat and generally proving that they lack $5 million worth of polish. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: Payback for Simon Cowell 2011-12-02T13:50:29Z True, it’s a particular kind of fun: compulsory hilarity, scheduled spontaneity, a scripted theater of the inane with random outbreaks of mediocre Tex-Mex. At Señor Frog’s in Times Square, It’s Spring Break Forever 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z A mediocre director will ruin a great piece of material.” Matt Damon: 'You're a better actor the less people know about you' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z There's so much mediocre music out there, and you believe in what you're doing so much, that you want more people to hear it, because it's medicine. Tedeschi Trucks Band serves London some funky medicine 2013-10-30T13:13:46Z An author who, for example, lacks a sense of irony is always bound to remain mediocre, and irony-less writers have a squeaky voice that achieves either slapstick or sentimentalism or just reportage. André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z No doubt it’s an obnoxious film-critic cliché to say that there are certain actors who are always worth watching, even in bad movies or mediocre TV series. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z And for their efforts Washingtonians are rewarded with long hours, mediocre salaries, towering rents and precious little spare scratch for weekly blowouts. Is ‘The Wing’ too hopelessly Manhattan for the working women of Washington? 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z “I’m tired of people who want to just be mediocre — just want to get by, to be good enough. Good enough isn’t good enough.” Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “It goes back to that saying: approach everything with the audacity of a mediocre white man,” she says, laughing. The Farewell's Lulu Wang: ‘I would love it if white men were asked the same questions as me’ 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Even if "The Hunt" were completely apolitical, it would still be mediocre and forgettable. "The Hunt" is pro-Trump propaganda 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z A pall of middle-class anxiety hangs over the characters’ lives as they try to turn mediocre cards into winning hands. Movie Review: ?Jeff, Who Lives at Home,? a Duplass Brothers Comedy 2012-03-15T22:12:53Z I will say, I think my character is a mediocre writer. In dark comedy "The Columnist," a reporter finds that dealing with online trolls is literal murder 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z New York, the nation's intellectual capital, ranked a mediocre 29th and Los Angeles an even worse 37th. The U.S.' Biggest Brain Magnets 2011-02-10T23:00:00Z By wine producers, I don’t mean fly-by-nights seizing marketing opportunities to promote mediocre bottles. The History of Wine in 442 Podcasts 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z There's a song by Glen Madieros, which you can recreate by imagining the least talented member of a mediocre boyband the moment before his nervous breakdown. Radio review: Tim Rice's American Pie 2010-07-09T05:44:00Z “To find the middle without being mediocre,” he said. Fashion Review: Paris Men’s Fashion Week Reviews: Louis Vuitton, Rick Owens, Raf Simons and More 2013-07-03T19:50:22Z “Naples’s historic pizzerias were using mediocre ingredients and low-quality vegetable oils.” Restaurant Report: 50 Kalò in Naples, Italy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z This admirer — and practitioner — of magic and illusion in art pleads for bland, mediocre reality in politics. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z What followed were gold-selling efforts and mediocre R&B; hits, until “Blurred Lines” helped him tap into a younger audience and reach international fame. Get them back: Where are Robin Thicke’s fans? 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s not every year that the Academy so flagrantly shows such a dramatic preference for mediocre stories about rich white racists. Pam Grier's Jackie Brown snub proves Oscars have always been #SoWhite 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s been a weird, rocky season for “Scandal” so far, as it’s tried to recover from a mediocre third season while finding new drama. “How To Get Away With Murder” and “Scandal” end with a bang: The most riveting power struggles on TV 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Chick-fil-A starts a culture war Topics: In this corner, we have mediocre poultry from the food court. Chick-fil-A starts a culture war 2012-07-23T21:20:00Z In January New York's Metropolitan Museum assembled his few surviving drawings to disprove the long-held belief that he was a mediocre draughtsman who was only at home with slick and shiny oil paint. Bronzino's Medici portraits ? review 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z I think that the reason a lot of people come to that conclusion is because it's easier to find mediocre pie than it is to find really good pie. "Pies transform a meal": Take this master class in pie making with Peete's Pie owner Petra Paredez 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z But like so many of the flicks that the film's gloomy title character seems to review, this kind of anti-romantic comedy proves a mediocre brew. 'The Film Critic' takes its time getting to its rom-com heart 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The studio hopes to reverse the mediocre performance of 2006's "Superman Returns." After "Potter," Warner Bros eyes magic from DC Comics 2011-07-04T18:26:54Z Fortunately for you, I'm not here to discuss my mediocre gardening. A pepper pesto from the New Mexican borderlands 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z We had a very mediocre meal, but the stunning 19-year-old sister became quite the favorite with the strolling violinist and the accordion player. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In the current exhibition, which includes two Tanner works, both astonishingly good, there are no mediocre Tanners to drag down the general level of one’s enthusiasm. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z She’s a passionate surfer whose skills, which are not expected to improve significantly, might generously be called “mediocre.” Review | It’s okay to be mediocre. In fact, it may even be beneficial. 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Literally, as mediocre men with bad intentions seemed to get their way in nearly every branch of the government responsible for dealing with "the Japanese problem." Days that live in 'Infamy': U.S. treatment of Japanese in WWII 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Instead, mediocre and even awful TV is often technically very good. Review: ‘Gypsy’ and the Problem of Well-Made Bad TV 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “We must always be on guard against mediocre cussing in our writing,” the novelist Katherine Dunn wrote, in a small book called “On Cussing.” Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Before that he wrote mediocre poems and reviews. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z There's nothing more frustrating than a mediocre screen adaptation that robs would-be players of the agency to maneuver into more exciting territory and viewers of a story with soul. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It was early November, and the kids were stuck under the weight of their respective mediocre trick-or-treat hauls. These salty-sweet popcorn balls will convert candy corn haters into true believers 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z He pines over Mani, compares his life to “a mediocre movie,” even desultorily contemplates suicide. Review: ‘War of the Encyclopaedists,’ by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Regardless, there's something profoundly satisfying about seeing the things we hold dear validated by the elites of our realms — however niche or mediocre that thing is. A love letter to Chicago’s tavern pizza, interrupted 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Gad’s brilliant performance as himself, if he were the neurotic, self-obsessed, irritable second banana to Billy Crystal on a mediocre sketch-comedy show, made “The Comedians” much better than it deserved to be. Mike Hale on the Emmy Awards 2015: Predictions, Wishes and What-Ifs 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z After a mediocre meal at an inexpensive cafe the first night, I adopted the same attitude for meals, keeping costs low at some of the best restaurants in town. Exploring Franche-Comté, France’s Well-Kept Secret 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It transcends borders, and cuisines, and speaks to a larger crisis of which pseudo-carbonara is only a mediocre instance. Carbonara Purists Can’t Stop the Pasta Revolution 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z There is also a light dusting of mediocre worthiness and maudlin sentimentality over everything, as good women battle against the odds, and against the difficult circumstances, to bring babies into a difficult world. TV review: The Snowman and The Snowdog; Doctor Who: The Snowmen; Call The Midwife 2012-12-25T20:45:00Z Some colleagues found him vain and preening, and his teaching mediocre. How did one of the worst paedophiles in history get away with his crimes? | Robert Booth 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Long waits for a table and abominable prices on everything from dinky hotel rooms to mediocre pasta are customary. | The Anti-Amalfi 2011-06-24T15:00:27Z I did a mediocre job of hiding the bulk of my disordered eating, abstaining while I was at school and eating the bare minimum at home. Naked with strangers, finally unafraid 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z There is a good case to be made - especially in Bordeaux - for spending significantly on one great bottle, rather than spending little on many mediocre ones. Come for the Values, Stay (or Leave) for the Vintage 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Also I think they opened comments on this one just to let us have fun with it, this is a big budget film but everyone must have known it would be mediocre at best. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z After a quiet night in my bunk, I grabbed a mediocre, foil-wrapped breakfast sandwich from the hostel cafe. How increasingly upscale hostels are changing their grungy image 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z In an industry dominated by mass production of generally mediocre, inexpensive wines, they were bottling small quantities of extraordinary sherries that demonstrated how much of the conventional wisdom about sherry was wrong. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z If “Hotel” will have a problem, “mediocre ambition” is not likely to be it. ‘American Horror Story’ Recap: Lady Gaga Checks In 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The essay in the Tractatus is a very mediocre little tract, and most likely – so the orthodox view goes – a jejune compendium of Aristotelian thought by a none-too-bright Byzantine monk. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Slate complained that it was “a mediocre story that breezed past the bodyguards because of its Hollywood pedigree” and another writer in The Chicago Tribune, admitting envy, called Mr. Hanks “a dabbler at best.” Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Has he worked with mediocre directors in the past? Matt Damon: 'You're a better actor the less people know about you' 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Galifianakis does this routinely, even in a mediocre picture like “Due Date.” Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z Forty-eight seconds in, the bass line drops, thick and grimacing, and “Attention” turns from a mediocre whine to a ferocious middle finger. The Playlist: The War on Drugs and Lana Del Rey Deliver Two Kinds of Reveries 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The promised hamburgers finally materialized at 3 p.m. and were mediocre. Report from a movie set -- right here in town 2012-08-21T23:31:05Z Instead, it was just a largely unremarkable one, with a steady stream of average sketches before Weekend Update and a host of mediocre ones after. Watch Chris Hemsworth Bring the Power of Thor to 'SNL' 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z That said, this is by no means a mediocre ensemble, and for American listeners its appeal includes the earthy, mildly exotic woodwind and brass timbres common to European orchestras. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z I know this may sound as if my family doesn’t respect marriage, but we care about it deeply: we keep breaking up mediocre ones in pursuit of a better match. Modern Love: Happily Ever, After Divorce 2012-06-01T15:44:50Z The brothers spent a recent morning trying to cull mediocre material — engraved portraits of forgotten people, souvenir views of obscure places — but found it too painful to toss much. F.D.R. and Andy Warhol All Came for Art. Now the Movers Have Arrived. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Many in comedy today think that too many specials are being released, that comics are not spending enough time developing their art and that a deluge of mediocre stand-up will water down quality. A Netflix Experiment Gives Deserving Comics Their 15 Minutes 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Renzo Piano's Shard is a more elegant addition to a choked skyline of mediocre stumps. The Shard opens up to share its high, wide and handsome view 2013-01-11T08:03:00Z But without the cultural reconsiderations that get afforded to countless other mediocre old albums — no reunion tour, no deluxe reissue, no oral histories — “Lone Justice” remains an orphan. Perspective | The best old albums that we discovered in 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z “This is an exceptionally fine novel about a young girl whose mediocre parents don’t like her, precisely because she is an inconveniently exceptional human being,” The Times said in its 1973 review. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z There is, honestly, plenty of mediocre work to skip, but also enough good stuff to reward a visit. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Some might believe that Pat gets the girl when he wins a bet for his father by scoring a mediocre 5 with an admittedly adorable dance number. Modern Love: Making a Hard Choice for a Soft Landing - Modern Love 2013-05-17T16:00:00Z A fragment of a colossal but mediocre quartzite Tut statue that once stood outside the mortuary chamber is bathed in a pulsing sound-and-light show. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z You enter a wonderland populated by various cartoon characters — Disney, Looney Tunes, Pauline Phoenix, or even Garfield — where you happily pay exorbitant prices for mediocre fast food, all to keep the illusion intact. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Negative reviews, a difficult release date and skepticism from religious audiences resulted in a mediocre $24.5 million opening weekend for Ridley Scott’s expensive “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' Underwhelms at the Box Office 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z "If you start with mediocre ingredients, the outcome will be mediocre. You cannot change that." "I am an artisan": Chef Eric Ripert on meditation, demystifying seafood and his next chapters 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, the Peacock further experimented with the format with a one-shot variety special starring Maya Rudolph, and was reportedly for a time mulling making more of the same — despite its mediocre reviews. Will Neil Patrick Harris save variety — or bury it? 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z A really good cocktail at a restaurant might cost the same as a glass of mediocre wine. The Wine Business Sees a Problem: Millennials Aren’t Drinking Enough 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z That being said, automatic gratuity remains a divisive topic, with some asserting that being forced to pay a pre-set service charge, even when the service is mediocre or even abysmal, is unfair. Are forced gratuities legal or not? The answer may disappoint stingy diners 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z Is a mediocre “Boondocks” better than no “Boondocks” at all? Critic’s Notebook: Back to ‘The Boondocks,’ Minus Its Creator’s Touch 2014-04-20T21:59:13Z Of course, this being the highly advanced 21st century, simple animation won't do, so we must suffer through the mediocre, lifeless computer-generated animation of this treasured twosome. Capsule reviews: 'Tron: Legacy,' 'How Do You Know' 2010-12-16T21:31:05Z Finally, Clooney may still be directing mediocre movies, but this melancholic coming-of-age film is more good than ambitious — and that may be why, even with its failings, "The Tender Bar" yields some modest pleasures. In George Clooney's coming-of-age flick "The Tender Bar," Ben Affleck provides the gooey center 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z But the movie that this fine ensemble operates in, Scott cautions, is “thoroughly mediocre.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ and ‘Incredibles 2’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Casey, a mediocre hockey goalie at the start of the movie, is a better one by the end, but that’s about it for character development. ‘Skating to New York,’ by Charles Minsky 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z I think of the parents in the college-bribery case, who would rather commit crimes than allow their children to be mediocre. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Dinner with Anita Loos and Truman Capote, before going on to several film premieres, none of which was better than mediocre. Digested read: Liberation: Diaries Volume Three: 1970–1983, by Christopher Isherwood 2012-06-17T18:00:01Z Mainly, the performances by the Guangzhou and Liaoning troupes were mediocre, at the level of good regional groups from countries with much longer histories of ballet. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z That wasn't helped any by the mediocre animation, which didn't quite rise to the level of a "Justice League Unlimited" episode. Comics: "Superman/Batman: Apocalypse" true to source material 2010-09-29T17:10:00Z He added, “A lot of great tennis players who could play college tennis never get the opportunity, and a lot of mediocre players end up on the team.” The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Pay journeymen players £40,000 per week for mediocre performances or to sit on the bench - it's all part of the madness of modern soccer. Al Fayed defends Jackson statue? 2011-04-03T17:28:36Z I mean, I read a couple of articles after Sundance that said her poetry is mediocre. Maggie Gyllenhaal on playing “starving” women: “The way many women are feeling right now” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Some are brilliant, some are mediocre; some are charming some are annoying. Why I'm still watching "American Idol" after all these years 2011-01-19T18:01:00Z It has nothing to do with the technique, it’s just a mediocre film. Birdman Director Alejandro González Iñárritu: Alfred Hitchcock's Rope Is "A Terrible Film" 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Through six episodes it’s blandly mediocre, though it starts to perk up a little in Episodes 5 and 6. Review: Netflix Tries to Channel Its Chi With ‘Marvel’s Iron Fist’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Bear’s a mediocre cook, but the fact that we ate something recognizable was encouraging. The 1 Thing President Obama Refused to Do on 'Running Wild With Bear Grylls' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But the rest of the script is mediocre, with underdeveloped characters and more villains than a superhero movie. ‘Watch Dogs,’ an Adventure Game From Ubisoft 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z School is back in session for the sweet, sometimes absurd British comedy “Sex Education,” which leans heavily into its streaming-series freedom to portray adolescent sex for what it generally is: awkward, mediocre, part of life. ‘Sex Education’ Is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know. 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z On weeknights they took turns cooking very mediocre meals for the family. Motherlode: Why Moms Should Quit 2011-05-04T15:45:23Z That’s a mediocre grade, but since cost just $15 million to produce, and a relative pittance to promote, it’s already close to profit status after one weekend. The Chastain Perfecta: Mama and Zero Score While Arnold Stands Down 2013-01-21T22:37:39Z These are drowned in an ocean of middle-of-the-road to downright mediocre works of art. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z The show, which was one of the most anticipated of the recent Broadway season, received mediocre to negative reviews and failed to win any Tony Awards in June. 'Bullets Over Broadway' to close in New York on Aug. 24 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The occasional appearance by a dynamic artist offered little relief from corny joke routines, mediocre singing and group numbers populated by performers with lackluster technique. Dance Review: Syncopated Tap Rhythms Tattooed Onto the Floor 2011-07-10T21:39:12Z My suddenly mediocre job is weighing on me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When turning 30 becomes an existential crisis 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z His performance is certainly the most engaging part of an otherwise mediocre movie, and his win will likely age as well as most of the other previous winners I just mentioned. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of mediocre cava around, but this superb bottle stands out. 15 Wines Under $15: Inexpensive Bottles for Stay-at-Home Drinking 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z To tag her character with a style problem is like complaining that bakes only a mediocre layer cake. Television Review: Detectives From Tess Gerritsen?s Novels, on TNT 2010-07-11T21:22:00Z Still, I’m forced to admit I kind of liked it, largely based on a cast that elevates supremely mediocre material to – well, what exactly? “This Is Where I Leave You”: Terrific cast almost rescues turgid middlebrow crap 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Twelve months away from California and what I wanted most was mediocre Mexican food, peanut butter and cottage cheese. The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z On the eve of his 50th birthday and a former lover’s wedding, a mediocre novelist takes refuge in literary invitations that enable him to travel around the world. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z These “Think Different” poster stars were not exactly out-of-the-box choices, and “Genius,” its title notwithstanding, plodded in that mushy middle ground where dutiful biography meets mediocre storytelling. Review: ‘Genius: Aretha’ Speaks Loudest When It Sings 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z And mediocre pie, as you mentioned, it tends to be pretty over processed. "Pies transform a meal": Take this master class in pie making with Peete's Pie owner Petra Paredez 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z On Saturday, the moderate success of Mr. Parker’s interpretation was immediately followed by a dance to “I Want You Back” that combined the worst of the Bang Group’s mediocre tap technique and forced cheer. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z I’d say he drags Ryan Reynolds down with him, but Reynolds is an old hand at mediocre movies adapted from that medium. ‘R.I.P.D.’ deserves to get ripped 2013-07-19T18:37:28Z The film, meanwhile, continued to pull in mediocre numbers at the box office. Oscar Campaign Phase 2: The Rules Toughen and a Wrestler Softens 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z An equally important idea or corollary to this would be that a good cook cannot hide behind poor or mediocre knife skills — but that's a discussion for another point in time. How to focus on simple cooking, according to a professional chef 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z One character’s observation that “a white girl who can sing R&B . . . even the mediocre ones go platinum,” seems suspiciously meta. With Fox’s “Star” Lee Daniels expands his nighttime soap empire 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Gold’s greatest asset is his dancers, marvelous technicians awash in mediocre choreography. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z In a mediocre family movie, the producers' concern for the supposedly delicate sensitivities of the children watching it would result in a film that avoids genuine tragedy and painful choices. "How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" is a beautiful, heartwarming finale to a great trilogy 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z We barhopped across the Old Town, skipping the tourist traps selling mediocre pizza and risotto in favor of dives lit up in neon lights where I only heard Croatian spoken. Giving Up the Battle for Peak Sunset 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It's a fine, heartfelt performance, to be sure — finer than the movie it's in — but it's hardly the best for Bullock, an underrated actress who's been in a few too many mediocre movies. A Sandra Bullock DVD fest 2010-03-19T21:21:00Z Some of the choices were downright awful, including a few by Simon Cowell, the show’s creator, who is mentoring the “girls” group and booted some fine singers in favor of mediocre ones. ArtsBeat Blog: L.A. Reid Defends His 'X Factor' Choices 2011-10-20T21:30:17Z Forget every boring/mediocre/plummy-voiced production that you have ever endured. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z But during that break she met motorcycle maker Jesse James, who she married in 2005, and started saying "no" to mediocre roles. 2010-02-02T20:32:00Z The other, “3 Hearts,” is mediocre, but the similarities between them are as significant as their differences. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Juan Marsé's Golden Girl is a witty portrait of a mediocre pro-Franco writer, who, after the death of the dictator, tortuously rewrites his own life history with the help of his unstable niece. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z Fold that talent into any decent parody of mediocre psychological thrillers, and ideally all we'd have to do is sit back and watch all parties involved alchemize TV movie tin into gold medal foolishness. No amount of wine can make "The Woman in the House" spoof work, despite its charismatic star 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Visiting the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, he concluded: “The painting is rather mediocre.” Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z When they debriefed, Kirsten admitted she was foggy on the plot, but she said she was okay handing in mediocre work. 10 ways to take the struggle out of homework 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z She looks around the place, with its mediocre art, and tells him, “This is what $60,000 gets you in New York.” Cannes Film Festival: Strauss-Kahn Film Under Fire 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Fifty years later German books were burnt in a huge public bonfire in Cleveland, while in Cincinnati Humboldt Street was renamed after that mediocre president, William Howard Taft. Man of the world 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z What followed felt like the Idol of old, with untalented, overly confident contestants begging to stay on despite their mediocre performances. ArtsBeat: American Idol Recap for Thursday, Jan. 26, 2011 2012-01-27T07:19:49Z There’s millions of completely mediocre to terrible bands with dudes in them. Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled By Women: The Round-Table Conversation 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z There are good curators, there are great curators, and a lot of mediocre curators. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z However, it’s early days, and it would be foolish to write off Apple based on its two mediocre efforts so far, because it’s almost guaranteed that Apple is simply biding its time. Carpool Karaoke: The Series – Apple's original TV is all stars and no substance 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Black played Connie Black, a glamorous but mediocre country singer, in Nashville The actress also starred as a jewel thief in what turned out to be Alfred Hitchcock's last movie, Family Plot, released in 1976. Hollywood actress Karen Black dies 2013-08-09T09:46:24Z Or because Los Angeles, awash in mediocre new architecture, is desperate for even moderately ambitious civic buildings of the type we once produced as a matter of course? Who will design Obama's library? Key questions in architecture as 2015 wraps up 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z I would also add Elaine's--because despite its mediocre food, where else would a New York writer, journalist, or politician go to eat "in the good old days" before Elaine died? The Magnificent 10: Restaurants That Changed How We Eat 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It commits the lesser design crime of being as mediocre as its predecessors. Design and the World Cup: Best and Worst 2010-06-27T22:00:00Z Where the poetry is mediocre, he’s not so brilliant. Celebrating an 18th-Century Composer, Carl Loewe 2012-02-24T21:05:38Z “There are no bad audiences — only mediocre performances.” All Seal Needs Is Love 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z An ensemble number in the second act, meanwhile, “Presidential Party,” in which mediocre past presidents — Andrew Johnson, Rutherford B. Hayes, et al. — visit Dave in a hallucinatory sequence, is itself downright cringeworthy. Review | Despite top-notch cast and crew, ‘Dave’ dissolves into camp by second act 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Even when he was mediocre, he never seemed in danger of coming apart at the seams, the way a couple of his teammates did. Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z And because paying an extra $5 for a mediocre film in 3-D is a rip-off. Most People Rarely?Or Never?Go to the Movies Nowadays 2012-02-16T20:54:23Z I was a mediocre student and a bit of a troublemaker. Motherlode Blog: Why I Want to Choose the ‘Disadvantaged’ Local School (and Why I Might Not) 2013-05-30T18:30:20Z The reason so many hotels are mediocre, Balazs adds, is that developers rarely give enough thought to design. | What Makes André Balazs Cry 2013-12-02T22:33:01Z And, second, as an action film, it will be mediocre. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z This is one of the thrills of "Nanette" — it fits so beautifully in the growing body of evidence that mediocre men and their enablers are quite expendable. Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”: The stunning Netflix special that made Louis C.K.’s comedy irr... 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z "It wasn't like I released it in a quiet week of mediocre songs," she added. Goulding continues UK chart reign 2013-09-02T08:12:28Z It's not used for services, and our guide points out "this place has amazing architecture and no folk; the Forum has mediocre architecture but is always full of folk". On the white bus to Wythenshawe – council housing by design 2012-05-22T16:16:13Z They engage in absurdly overblown backstage histrionics while their offspring are giving mediocre performances onstage. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X-Factor' Recap: Now You See the Judge, Now You Don't 2011-09-29T14:24:58Z It doesn’t make you wait till the end for the actor and director credits; rather, the movie spills them over the opening scene of a heist — just like the mediocre old days. Ride Along: Kevin Hart, Small Cop 2014-01-15T18:37:17Z Calling it "mind-numbingly mediocre", they picketed a live broadcast from the Pleasance Courtyard. The G2 Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading one 2010-08-10T15:42:00Z It’s Perry, now in his eleventyseventh mediocre sitcom in the post-Chandler years, who flails about in the pilot episode as this modern-day Oscar. ‘The Odd Couple’: Not nearly odd enough by today’s standards 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z From the start, too much of the discussion of this mediocre novel has been snarled up in identity politics — a poisonous tendency encouraged by the author herself. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z “But if the orchestras are mediocre, there is nothing to be done. Further rehearsals are useless.” Georges Prêtre, French conductor who recorded with Maria Callas, dies at 92 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The world had pretty much forgotten that “Footloose” was turned into a mediocre stage musical — until the Kennedy Center took it upon itself to remind us. Review | You’ll groove to the pop hits in this stage revival of ‘Footloose.’ And nothing else. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet if Charlie Sheen's tenure on Two and a Half Men has taught us anything, it's that an unsavoury bachelor lifestyle is no barrier to the production of deeply mediocre family entertainment. Why do comedy stars do family films? 2011-08-04T20:30:01Z What better way to spurn America’s élite than to host a concert on the National Mall with a bunch of aggressively mediocre performers? The Bizarre Perfection of Trump’s Inaugural Concert 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Scott is a mediocre photographer who lost his job as an adjunct professor at the New School. ‘The Winter Girl’ review: A marital thriller more scary than ‘Gone Girl’ 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The song, about a love so heavy that it transcends jealousy, made the volume of mediocre artistry surrounding it nearly bearable. Billboard Music Awards are ho-hum, but Taylor Swift was impressed 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Not to be confused with the maddeningly similar “grosselage,” which simply indicates a collection of mediocre vineyards with supposedly similar characteristics. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Edward II of England : Edward was, by most accounts, a mediocre 14th-century king with one notable achievement: graciously ceding greater authority to Parliament. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z There were mediocre books in between, but surprisingly few of them. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Commodities of lazy weekend life in coffee shops and at mediocre concerts next to the standard nine-to-five job in Manhattan. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Is there a franchise other than the Marvel Cinematic Universe that's as skilled at lending its most mediocre titles an air of essentiality by hiring A-list talent? With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Between last year’s “The Princess Switch” and its just-announced sequel, “The Princess Switch: Switched Again,” she managed to squeeze in this mediocre rom-com. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “Grease: Live” is the Surface of TV musicals, right down to the surprisingly brilliant technical aspects covering up a kind of mediocre product. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z In the finale, Galadriel learns the danger of trusting a certain trope of man, the mediocre ones who fall up and will drag you down with them. "The Rings of Power" shows us a new side of Middle-earth: girlfriends 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z While most hours are terrible, rote or entirely mediocre, there are gems that would have remained entirely obscure in previous eras. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z But certainly the novel and the theater is still alive and well, for the most part, despite some pretty mediocre storytelling. Screenwriting guru tells all 2010-04-21T15:06:00Z I think letting go of pointless, mediocre jobs is fine, especially if you are grieving and coming out of depression. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z For that piece a solo full of histrionics, pieces of rope and the occasional shriek, it’s as if she’s taken the movement of a mediocre mime and tossed it into a modern-dance blender. Dance Review: ?Heist Project,? by Belinda McGuire, at Joyce SoHo - Review 2011-12-04T23:14:42Z So, this mediocre and derivative artist exerts his posthumous tentacular grip and spreads the well-meaning lie that virtue equals genius. Henry Moore has carved out a bigger reputation than he deserves 2012-12-12T14:43:57Z Its place, Ruppert laments, will probably be taken by “just another modern version of mediocre architecture.” Blight of fancy: D.C. starts to feel like ‘Mad Max’ amid constant construction 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z As an artist he was perhaps ultimately mediocre, but he was a compelling, if derivative, writer and, as a contemporary dandy, he was unparalleled. Sebastian Horsley obituary 2010-06-18T14:40:00Z Earlier in the discussion, he called her — along with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — a moderate with mediocre powers of persuasion. Bill Maher touts ‘granny ticket’ of Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Audiences appeared to agree with critics, giving the film a mediocre B CinemaScore. Boss Baby trumps Beauty and the Beast to top US box office 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z As if to balance that up, however, Harry's Law, the mediocre Kathy Bates legal drama, was inexplicably showered with love. Emmy nominations 2011: Mad Men and Mildred Pierce lead the fray 2011-07-14T15:09:00Z Instead I have a mediocre reel documenting how pretty I used to be.” | 'Cradle and All' : A Clock Ticking to Incessant Wailing 2011-05-26T02:01:03Z “Velvet Buzzsaw,” a satirical horror-show sendup of the art world, isn’t a good film, but like a lot of mediocre films, it contains a trove of meaningful anthropological data. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It stood out from the crowd of mediocre plonk because it had clean, bright fruit flavors and “a good balance of acid and sweetness.” The 12 best wine bargains of 2017 are cheap without tasting like it 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The best part about it for me is that it makes even a somewhat mediocre film such as Ant-Man fun. Batman in 4DX with fake rain and added smells? Bring it on 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z So I stuck with science, mustering up just enough motivation to scrape by with a bachelor’s degree, a mediocre GPA and minimal participation in campus activities. Where is my true path in life? 2012-11-09T01:00:00Z “Why so self-indulgent? Let a broader array of nihilists see themselves in your mediocre music.” Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Trump and Baldwin feuded on Twitter in March of that year with the 45th president claiming the actor’s “dying mediocre career” was revived by his impersonation of the commander in chief. Donald Trump Jr. sells tees mocking Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ set tragedy 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z And this is one more reason will triumph on Oscar night: if mediocre work wins in Hollywood's official circles, it tends to keep on winning. After SAG Awards, Why Oscar-Winner Guessing Game Is Over 2011-02-21T14:05:00Z Can he and Sean leave their mark on the school as they bring the "mediocre era" to a close and prepare to become men? TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 8-12 October 2012-10-08T08:00:00Z Doug, who has prides himself at being consistently mediocre at all sports, was soon trouncing me; he nailed his first par on hole 4. Frugal Traveler: Budget Fun on the California Coast 2014-04-02T18:18:48Z Even my efforts to eat at the places with awards and reputations were rewarded with mediocre meals. How paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z If this show were mediocre, or even just good, I might have lasted half the set at best. Get Close: 10 Gems From the Pretenders 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z James said the corporation did still offer peaks of excellence, above mediocre troughs, and that no one would "wish to lose the most distinguished broadcaster in the world". PD James attacks ITV 'cultural vandalism' at dinner for Melvyn Bragg 2010-06-04T12:11:00Z Do you ever look at the profusion of mediocre travel memoirs and think, What have I done? T Magazine: Bon Mots 2012-11-09T16:00:43Z I agree that the I-phone generation or luggage cart central is semi-comatose and that our so-called meritocracy is mediocre and awesome. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z “I told you this was a stupid idea,” says one character in the criminally mediocre “Triple Frontier.” Ben Affleck is the best thing in "Triple Frontier," a clunker of a heist film 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “I’d been glad to be quite good at the little thing I did,” he thinks, comparing himself to Salieri in “Amadeus,” “rather than mediocre at something bigger that I tried to do.” A Louche Life Set to a Show-Tunes Score 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z “The idea that young choreographers need mentoring is catching on like wildfire because we see so much uninformed and mediocre choreography,” said Gus Solomons Jr., also a creative adviser. Ailey Awards New Choreography Fellowships 2011-05-12T03:00:08Z “So consequently, I give any number of mediocre performances,” he says, smiling, “but they’re in disparate roles.” Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability … ' 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z If you play for 40 years, but play mediocre music, why? The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z Still, there is a lot of mediocre Thai food in the Bay Area, and beyond. On the (Rising) Trail of Thai Food in America 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z When I saw the show in December, the story was scattered, the music shockingly mediocre. ArtsBeat: 'Spider-Man' Turns Off the Critics 2011-02-08T13:42:42Z New York’s new jails, on the other hand, need to be transformational buildings, not mediocre ones, to match the transformational aspirations of criminal justice reform, and to do justice to the boroughs. After Rikers Island Closes, What Will Jail Look Like? 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Here’s the thing: the film is bad, yes; but bad in a strange, mediocre way where it’s not bad enough to be bad-bad, just underwhelming. Murder Mystery: the film that asks – what is Jennifer Aniston doing? 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z All I got was queueing from one mediocre room to the next, with one big queue to wait for a half pint at the end. 'You can't see the Empire State Building from the top': readers on overrated tourist sights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z He's affable, with a mediocre sense of comedic timing and great name recognition that is apparently worth the "big paycheck" that sources say was negotiated for the "Butterfly Effect" actor. Ashton Kutcher hired for "Two and a Half Men"? 2011-05-13T12:01:00Z Had he married Hale when he was young, he wrote, he most likely would have become a mediocre philosophy professor. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z To my eye, the results are fairly mediocre. Mark Ulriksen’s “Towering Wealth” 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z An hour or two of fleshy humping interrupted by mediocre plot is about all but the most disinterested can typically take. "Sex/Life": Netflix's best worst raunchy ride of this summer is 50 shades of oy vey 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z She transcended whatever else she was doing, be it a mediocre script or a dress that didn’t look right. An Appraisal: An Alluring Beauty Exempt From Fashion?s Rules 2011-03-24T02:58:02Z They have said they were transfixed as children by old VHS cassettes of that era’s movies — the good ones, the bad ones and especially the mediocre ones, once regarded as Blockbuster detritus. Review | A convoluted ‘Stranger Things’ follows its primal ’80s urges to one monster of a mall 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Not that “Pretty Woman” is terrible—it’s just mediocre, albeit to a mind-boggling degree. ‘Pretty Woman’ Review: Super-Safe Sex on Broadway 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Maybe without a live audience, you felt all dances featured in the movie were complete and utter garbage – or worse, mediocre. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Rhythm Nation joins annals of celebrity dance moments 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z So yes, I wholeheartedly agree with the typical criticisms of Stewart–that he was at his best doing negative “takedowns” of hypocrites and phonies while being mediocre at best when trying to think up solutions. This guy changed the world: We won’t see the likes of Jon Stewart again 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Esme is a celebrated, widowed British actress, who, over the course of 16 years suffers family heartbreak, generational antagonism, mediocre TV gigs and financial collapse. ArtsWest takes a look at 'Amy's View' 2011-09-09T19:06:04Z Joel is the latest character in a long line of mediocre, threatened men drawn to the power of capable, talented women—until he realizes they're smarter than him, or more accomplished or have more potential. The dark side of Joel on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Even in mediocre configurations — looking at you, wedge — French fries are tender, starchy vehicles for salt and sauce. The absolute best way to cook french fries, according to so many tests 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z A barely passing grade separated from a student’s lived experience seems like a mediocre effort. Depression and anxiety threatened to kill my career. So I came clean about it 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Food tours, both the good and the mediocre, are flourishing because food consciousness is, too. Food Sherpas Guide You to a City’s Culinary Secrets 2013-07-30T19:16:51Z Clearly they are alter-egos: the artist as a famous, wealthy but emotionally hollow and self-destructing relic; and the artist as a bottom-feeding hustler of mediocre talents but piercing self-awareness. 'No Man's Land' at ACT: Pinter without a map 2012-08-23T17:55:05Z She was simply following an unspoken rule adopted by Instagram users to avoid populating feeds with unedited, mediocre images. The Agony of Instagram 2013-12-13T22:04:40Z Often, he said, “the char siew in Singapore is very mediocre — a lot of places just add Chinese five spice and put it in the roaster.” Restaurant Report: Char in Singapore 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “The industry kind of looks at it like, you’ve got to be great to get in the game, and you’ve just got to be mediocre to stay. That’s not for me.” Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z “There is contemporary fine art and those who are good, no good or mediocre at it.” Romanian Artists Rethink Brancusi’s Legacy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z They took a mediocre genre show from the 1960s and turned into a mega-franchise simply by fighting for it and creating a culture and cult following around it. The geek stranglehold on cinema 2010-07-29T21:45:00Z Mozart’s great comedy returns to the Met, in the relatively recent, if rather mediocre, production by Richard Eyre. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Judging by the competent but mediocre results Kavakos elicited from the NSO, conducting is not among his many musical gifts, at least not yet. Kavakos ends two-week NSO residency by taking up the baton 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z On this visit, I stayed far away from the port area, where I had eaten my first, mediocre bouillabaisse years ago. In Search of the Real Bouillabaisse, Marseille’s Gift to the Fish Lover 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z The acting ranges from mediocre to outright bad, especially on “All My Children.” Critic’s Notebook: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live,’ on Hulu and iTunes 2013-05-03T21:37:46Z It was pain from finding club fliers in my dad’s underwear drawer with men’s names and phone numbers scrawled on the backs, pain from a mediocre grade on my trig test. My teenage wasteland: The kid from “Kids” who took my naivete and trampled it with sex 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z And Salman Rushdie kicks off the month on September 3, taking Cervantes to modern-day America in a Don Quixote reimagining about a mediocre spy thriller author and his imaginary, TV-obsessed, lovesick creation "Quichotte." Read this next: 6 new novels coming in September you won't want to miss 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z When Hagerty heaped glowing praise on the at best mediocre offerings of the chain restaurant, instead of drawing sniggers, she got equally glowing praise heaped right back at her. Guy Fieri takes his lashings, but was it fair? 2012-11-15T20:33:10Z They think the food at the faculty party they’re about to attend will be mediocre, and they’re sad that they turned out mediocre too. In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z Instead it goes for cheap laughs, farcical characters and mediocre rap songs. Review: ‘Vietgone,’ a Refugee Tale With Laughs and Rap 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z You’ll need fragrant, ripe fruit for this recipe — better to substitute with great nectarines rather than opt for mediocre peaches. When ice cream meets booze, what could go wrong? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z My personal margarita history reads like many others, I'm sure: some prescriptively good ones and many more mediocre, concocted from bottled mixes and dispensed by the pitcher. The only sugar-rimmed margarita worth drinking 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Nobody gets punished for a mediocre Dolly Parton impression or misshapen hip pads. What we can learn from "Drag Race All Stars 7" and the magic of anxiety-free reality competition 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Some fans say he wrote too much, some of it very mediocre. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z That evening, while the staff ate the mediocre family meal of spaghetti with chicken, Vincenzo rolled into the empty restaurant on a motorcycle he had purchased in secret and had been parking around the alley. My life in San Francisco’s restaurant alley 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z One result is a lot of mediocre art. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Russell assured the cameras that he would rise like a phoenix above the mediocre minds in his midst and sally forth to a victory that was all but assured. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z Vladimir Nabokov, who found Dostoyevsky “mediocre,” explored similar themes of moral quandary and mental anguish in his polarizing landmark work, “Lolita.” Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z And Levy, whose The Pink Panther and Night at the Museum took mediocre hackwork to new levels of witlessness, isn't the man to change that. You review: Date Night 2010-04-26T14:24:00Z Mr. Dixon’s exit came after his mediocre performance on Wednesday of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and Earth Wind and Fire’s “September.” ArtsBeat: Colton Dixon Voted Off 'American Idol' 2012-04-20T03:31:44Z On an island inundated with mediocre imitation art, the originality of this bohemian art colony is refreshing. 36 Hours in Phuket, Thailand 2010-03-19T03:19:00Z “The El Paso I grew up in was a very mediocre town that was comfortable with its mediocrity.” For Tex. congressman, Obama’s immigration plan is both ‘noble’ and ‘terrible’ The only mystery is why a mediocre comedy that lacked recognizable cast names and was unlikely to attract much critical support was despatched to market with such an ambitious release. Jen v Jim has a predictable victor at the UK box office | Charles Gant 2010-03-23T10:29:00Z They put out a mediocre first album and a second that was more promising, and they struggled, as Matt says, “to find ourselves.” The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z Her standup comedy is mediocre and petty mouthed, her films are not very good, and her performance in Steve Martin's play was decent but hardly award worthy. 2018 Tony Nominations: ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘SpongeBob’ Lead the Way 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z But unless it expands its Frankenstein mythology or finds a way to gussy up the story of the week, the show will remain decidedly mediocre. Second Chance – Frankenstein-inspired cop procedural needs a jolt of life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Years ago, my husband and I bought our first house in Upstate New York: a 1930s cottage with small rooms, low ceilings and mediocre wood floors. Traditionalists will tell you that you shouldn’t paint your floors. They’re wrong. 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z In a year of great and good and weird and interesting films, and many more mediocre ones, I decided that more was more. Film: The Revolution Is Being Shot on Digital Video 2010-12-17T23:34:06Z It didn't matter who the contestant was – a mediocre singer, a long-time Spice Girls fanatic, a lovely octogenarian. The X Factor 2012: could Mel B set it back on track? 2012-08-20T11:19:31Z In it Madonna described two of her rivals, Whitney Houston and Sharon Stone, as “horribly mediocre,” adding, “They’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me.” Madonna Loses Legal Battle Over Tupac Shakur Breakup Letter 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z That dream, of course, collapsed decades ago, a victim of corrupting political and economic forces, mediocre talents and its own ideological rigidity. Designed to Help Uplift the Poor 2010-02-18T17:25:00Z But I have to admit that too many mediocre commercial projects gets a pass in this city, making developers money while shortchanging the rest of us. 7 Bryant Park Embraces Its Place in the City 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z “In the words of Albert Einstein, great spirits are sometimes met by the violent opposition of mediocre minds.” Stanley Siegel, TV Host Who Made Career on Candor, Dies at 79 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “And I believed those things. Like if somebody said, ‘This girl’s music is mediocre,’ I was like, oh, I’m a mediocre human. Best Coast Almost Had No Future. Now Everything Has Changed. 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Published in two versions, the work is both a set of virtuosic études and a series of wayward variations on a mediocre theme, written by an amateur who was, for a moment, Schumann’s prospective father-in-law. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z These post-Michael episodes have been mostly mediocre, not just because the sense of structure is iffy but because the tone is so awkward. Is this show bad, or am I fickle? 2011-05-20T13:21:00Z As distastefully abusive as that premise seems, an undeniable chemical spark occurs between Dockery and Botto — enough to propel “Good Behavior” past the glut of stylish but mediocre cable dramas that feature morally ambiguous protagonists. Lady Mary as a boozy, floozy Southern criminal? Works like a charm. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, “Black Friday” also tries to make viewers root for its characters, who are mostly delightful because they are such wildly mediocre people. ‘Black Friday’ Review: Killer Sales Bring Killer Customers 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z In Concert,” Pryor delivered many superb, committed, often brief performances hidden in movies that were mediocre or worse. Critic’s Notebook: A Richard Pryor Retrospective, ‘A Pryor Engagement,’ at BAM 2013-02-05T23:21:42Z A more realistic question might be, Would you take a punch from Mike Tyson if it meant not having to sit through 10 hours of a mediocre lawyer show? Television Review: From Law School to a Frat House? 2011-05-31T22:09:37Z He was a good-natured kid haunted by a single bad decision; a high school genius who finds he’s turned into a rather mediocre adult. From zero to hero: how the Spider-Man franchise was saved 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Still the work was less concerned with dance expression than with its own mediocre ideas. ‘Diary of an Image’ Tries to Define DD Dorvillier 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The play is a masterpiece, this production is mediocre. Reader reviews: your take on A Doll's House and the Royal Ballet 2012-07-13T15:28:38Z No credible relationship develops between them, and their pretzeling remains a series of cute tricks too mediocre for the circus. Dance Review: Misnomer Dance Theater at Joyce SoHo 2011-12-12T23:21:34Z It is more emotionally laborious for a lot of women to explain why they don’t want to have mediocre sex than to simply have the mediocre sex. A woman’s right to say ‘meh’: being sex positive won’t guarantee you an orgasm 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Even at its weakest moments, though, Not Your Kind of People is still as good as any mediocre album released in the late ’90s. Garbage?s Reunion Rock Record Feels More Like an Anomaly 2012-05-15T16:19:09Z More surprising still were the outbursts of enthusiasm over some of the more mediocre works. Auctions: Modest Impressionist and Modern Art to Please the Crowd 2011-05-05T14:00:04Z His latest musical, “Stephen Ward,” which opened to mixed reviews in London in December, and has had mediocre ticket sales ever since, will close on March 29, the BBC reported on Tuesday. ArtsBeat: Lloyd Webber’s New Musical to Close in London 2014-02-25T16:31:45Z What I like most about “Dead to Me” is how it sees cover-ups in everything: in suburban nonsense, beachy waves, slogan T-shirts, mediocre romances. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Others praised Streep's acting, but panned the script as mediocre. Thatcher movie opens in Argentina to tough reviews 2012-02-02T17:53:07Z “What pushes you more than the hardships you face? If there’s nothing to push you, you’ll stay mediocre.” In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Sure, I had a few exceptional teachers, but I also had a lot of mediocre ones, and some who were ill-prepared or incompetent. My private school guilt 2012-10-09T00:00:00Z The corollary is that the word about mediocre films gets around much faster these days. Box Office Weakened: Greeks and Killers Falter in a Junky June 2010-06-06T20:15:00Z Who’d have thought that Plaza’s mediocre film To-Do List, a 90s-set sex comedy that didn’t quite catch on with critics or audiences, would seem so terrific just one summer later? Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z His pals include Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, and his movie is as mediocre as the latest versions of theirs. ‘Aquaman’ Review: Our Hero Swims. His Movie Sinks. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z It's pretty mediocre fare, completely bloodless and formulaic. Comics: "Hybrid Bastards" provides some good, dirty fun 2010-09-21T19:27:00Z Worse, it tasted sour but also managed to taste a lot like nothing, as though Harpoon hired a scientist to brew the world’s most inoffensively mediocre beer. Seasonal Suds: Rating 11 Fall Beers 2013-10-08T09:45:51Z Brutal questions emerge: What if you decline motherhood in favor of your art and your art turns out to be mediocre? Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Gene is a mediocre actor and a worse teacher. Learning Lines. And Crossing Them. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The work is at once performance and its document; at once mediocre and profound; at once narrative and containing no actual story. Ragnar Kjartansson’s exuberant work at Hirshhorn is a party celebrating mediocrity 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Loved Rex Reed back in the day, and I most certainly agree with him about today's mediocre movies. Rex Reed Bangs a Gong on the Mediocrity of Modern Life 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Seriously, though, the sexual chemistry between Crowe and Blanchett is fully convincing, and acts as an electrical field that energizes the mediocre movie around it. "Robin Hood's" smoldering adult romance 2010-05-14T00:20:00Z What inspires Turkington is what sparked his teenaged obsessions: the obscured realms of entertainment, where earnest dreamers struggle to sustain mediocre careers. What’s it like to live as one of the ‘worst’ comics in the world? Gregg Turkington is finally talking about it. 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The early comments are the run of the mill stuff that any writer might expect — “mediocre” and “not atrocious.” A viral video won’t stop abuse: If these “mean tweets” at female sports writers are “shocking,” you haven’t been paying attention 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z She used to say to me, ‘Mum, I hate mediocrity. I never want to be mediocre.’ Amy Winehouse’s mom opens up: “I did not expect to lose Amy when I did” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z They go on to have short lived mediocre pop and acting careers. The Saudi housewife who spoke out 2010-04-12T10:00:00Z There are, of course, characteristics that differentiate a mediocre D.J. set, which this was, from something more cohesive, something that seems effortless but requires a great deal of work. Robin Schulz Plays Webster Hall’s Girls & Boys Party 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z An individual can always play well and sound good on a mediocre night for the collective. Music: Ballplayers Who Hit the Right Note 2011-06-24T19:50:28Z As an affable but mediocre comic named Andre Allen, Rock rules. Chris Rock a rough, raw, rare diamond in 'Top Five' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z But studio supervision, a useful form of quality control on mediocre filmmakers, risks diluting the distinctive qualities of unusually gifted filmmakers such as Trank, regressing to the mean without fulfilling the norm. "Fantastic Four" Should Have Been Great 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The parade of the mediocre begins with a girl so tanned she's indistinguishable from her handbag. Tonight's TV highlights: Match Of The Day Live 2011-01-11T00:05:07Z When he staged an early production, “Deafman Glance,” a seven-hour silent play in New York, as he recounted in an interview published by Hermès, “the reception was pretty mediocre.” An Avant-Garde Director Sets the Stage for Hermès 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Chefs were taught to prefer mediocre European ingredients, like frozen fish and dried morels, over excellent local ones. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In 2007, she was back in the news when Thomas wrote a book, "My Grandfather's Son," in which he described her as rude, a mediocre worker, a liar, and his "most traitorous adversary." Anita Hill in spotlight again as new film opens 2014-03-21T20:38:06Z He mourns that “it sometimes seems as if the movies are more mediocre than ever, more craven and cowardly, more skillfully manufactured to pander to the lowest tastes instead of educating them.” Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z It doesn't help matters that the movie itself is so painfully mediocre. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z It’s a harmless bit of mediocre fluff,” Ashley Wool, an autistic actress in upstate New York, said, referring to the Netflix series that also received surprise Globe nominations. The Golden Globes Celebrated Sia’s ‘Music.’ Autistic Activists Wish They Hadn’t. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z His stand-up was “mediocre,” he said, “one hilarious engineering joke after another.” Bill Nye the Science Guy: ‘I have no trouble taking political stances’ 2013-07-19T16:31:37Z Joined by a very bouncy Ono, it's a happy end to a strange and sadly mediocre night. Double Fantasy Live – review 2013-06-24T17:06:31Z What's more impressive: a strong remake of a recognized classic, or a fascinating spin on a tale that was mediocre to terrible the first time around? The best remakes of all time 2011-04-08T23:30:00Z But “it’s a mediocre watch with an atrocious application platform.” $39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors don’t blink, and even go for seconds. 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z You can’t have a show about someone who is mediocre at what they do. Rainn Wilson: In Defense of the Anti-Hero and Cracking Offensive Jokes 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z On the critics’ aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, three of Perry’s most popular pictures — Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion and Madea Goes to Jail — managed only a mediocre 68% rating. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z Ms. Bunbury’s character, Ginny Baker, possesses a mediocre fastball but a fine screwball in an era when few can throw one. That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z If it doesn't work, it's the thing you don't ever want to be in your work, or in what you present to people outside of your immediate circle of intimates is, "His work is mediocre." "Lyric writing is not easy": Michael Stipe looks back on creating REM's "New Adventures of Hi-Fi" 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z And when you stack the cost of a steak dinner at home against dining out or even the most mediocre delivery experience, it works out to be an incredibly special dinner that's still budget friendly. Ribeye makes weeknight dinner feel like an old school steakhouse 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z He applies the same philosophy to entertaining: Instead of three mediocre dinners, throw one exquisite evening. Entertaining tips from the renowned owner of the Inn at Little Washington 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Her career had plateaued, she felt, and as she watched mediocre men climb the entertainment ladder, she got angry: “I do what they do, and probably better, and from a harder point.” The Comedy-Destroying, Soul-Affirming Art of Hannah Gadsby 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The writing and sometimes acting goes from bad to worst to bad to mediocre back to bad. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z He readily describes his drawing ability as mediocre. The Anime Master of Missed Connections Makes Strong Contact in Japan 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Most of her big range was wasted in this space, with its mediocre sound and lack of pageantry. Music Review: Martina McBride at Pennsylvania Station - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:18Z The reason culture is so mediocre is because most people who are really interesting are probably under a duvet right now. Rumer: 'Culture is mediocre because most interesting people are under a duvet' 2012-05-23T14:37:21Z Tony Goldwyn's "Conviction" tells a great story that deserves a great movie, but settles for a mediocre one. 'Conviction': Great story gets mediocre treatment 2010-10-21T20:17:00Z An episode of a totally mediocre TV show takes, in a way, just as much work as making a masterpiece. What Do Lars Ulrich and A.O. Scott Have in Common? A Lot, It Turns Out 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z She warns us early on that her observational comedy isn’t that good, but self-awareness does not turn a mediocre joke into something better. Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’ Doubles Down on the Comedy of Contradiction 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The mediocre songs, for the most part, conjure wan memories of Tin Pan Alley, and the dialogue scenes wallow in cheap sentiment. Review | ‘Newsies’ has legs. It’s the other parts that still need work. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Not bad enough to be fun, nor good enough to be Southern Gothic, this flat film is just painfully mediocre. Nic Cage's "Grand Isle" falls short of the Southern Gothic crazy it promises 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z As a result, the movie contains all of the elements of the originals that were mediocre — namely, the plot and backstory — with none of the style and artistry that made them distinctive. "Hellboy" needs Guillermo del Toro. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z She was a mediocre student but a big reader. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Cowell was a record producer who didn’t have time for the bad, and no inclination to encourage the mediocre. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z The British filmgoer is perpetually bombarded with dreary mediocre fare, or out-and-out dross – and yet, mysteriously, some really fascinating Cannes films, genuinely brilliant or bizarre, never make it over the Channel. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z We stop for a mediocre burrito as the sun sets over the hills. My return to the Creation Museum 2012-07-31T00:00:00Z On a technical level, the film veers between creative and oddly mediocre, namely in a driving sequence that looks so fake, you wonder if it was intentional. Review: Eastwood’s ‘Jersey Boys’ catchy but uneven 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And in June, the K-pop kings BTS landed at No. 1 with mediocre streams but big CD sales of a compilation album, “Proof.” K-pop Queens Blackpink Hit No. 1 With CDs and ‘Signed’ Digital Albums 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z “I got a mediocre grade on a paper for her once,” recalled Moran, 47, now the group vice president of product and design/user experience for Medscape. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z He had always been a mediocre student, and for the first time he thought this was something he could excel in. Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Small wonder Helberg is evangelical about a time when the etiquette was to be polite about performing animals, no matter how mediocre their tricks. Simon Helberg: from Big Bang nerd to Meryl Streep’s cartoonish pianist 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But there's no denying that somewhere along the way, the mediocre star of one of television's least entertaining shows has become the most dangerous man in comedy. Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z It would start at Wada, which from the outside looks like one of the dozens of mediocre Japanese restaurants in this city. | Tokyo on the Seine 2013-07-08T20:22:53Z And this is one more reason will triumph on Oscar night: because, if mediocre work wins once in Hollywood's official circles, it tends to keep on winning. The Reasons Why the Oscar Race Is Already Over 2011-01-31T09:15:00Z Even “Terminator Genisys,” as mediocre as it is, felt like a movie about the very experience of its viewing. "Southpaw" Is a Throwback—in the Worst Way 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z That’s because I felt finally fed up with my current metropolitan area, Philadelphia, which ranked a very mediocre 55th in the 2015 Mercer survey. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z To think about it, every final has had a mediocre person in it. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Two Bros. and the other dollar-slice places, he said, “acted as a kind of centrifugal force on the world of New York pizza,” pushing mediocre, overpriced places out of the business. The Kings of the Dollar Slice Build a Better Pizza 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The abundance of mediocre opera productions in Germany is a consequence. 2010-01-21T08:58:00Z With characters like profiteering Milo Minderbender, mediocre commander Major Major and parade loving Lieutenant Scheisskopf, “Catch-22” portrays a U.S. bomber squadron whose superiors are not just incompetent, but deaf to reason. 60 years on, 'Catch-22' lands on TV in new age of absurdity 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Pappardelle takes a summery turn with basil, cherry tomatoes and artichoke hearts, but the addition of a few mediocre shrimp caused a $10 jump in price. Bake's bops into Bellevue, blowing changes in the kitchen 2012-08-16T20:54:04Z We were escorted into the basement, again, for a dinner of mediocre guacamole and pork-based soup in a soggy bread bowl. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z It was more of a tonnage strategy: just produce a ton of low-cost — I would argue mediocre — hours of television. National Geographic goes Hollywood! (In its own sort of way.) 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z In mediocre, lazy, or just plain bad productions, that can mean shoring up opera's ludicrous star system, the egos of its divas, divos, and maestros, and Thicknesse's culture of red-velvet snobbery. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z This led to a glut of comedy venues opening, lucrative deals being slung around and too many half-baked shows being given to too many mediocre comics until the market saturated and the bottom fell out. From Louis CK to Jerry Seinfeld: Netflix's comedy boom is about to go bust 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z But "we shouldn't be comparing our partners to the worst of our mediocre friends," says Hartley. When women can’t quit the emotional labor habit: “It’s hard to give up that gold star” 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z He later adds: "It's the same as here – you get good drama and mediocre drama." Dougray Scott 2010-06-03T11:45:00Z Little tidbits of information that encourage me to keep paddling through a sea of potential boyfriends while preventing me from docking my ship on a mediocre “good enough” relationship. My Ridiculous Dating System Totally Works! 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic "comedies" pairing her with increasingly bland leading men. 'One for the Money': Paging Dr. Izzie for a career transplant 2012-01-27T18:25:05Z It was the beginning of a good, long run for the show after a mediocre patch. Book Review: Amy Poehler’s ‘Yes Please’ 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z In voicemails that Harmon released last year, Chase called "Community" a "mediocre sitcom." 'Community' reunited with creator Dan Harmon 2013-06-11T01:32:16Z And, dismayingly for those who learned to lust by watching these gals in mediocre movies, we discover that catfighting would not have been their natural reaction to each other at all. Sex Symbols Squared 2010-06-04T21:34:00Z In all, “Laurencia” feels too close to the performances of the mediocre touring companies that the Trocks are meant to parody. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero at the Joyce Theater 2012-12-19T22:32:27Z It looks like the cover of some mediocre nonprofit group’s annual report, or of Guideposts magazine. Books of The Times: Culinary Comfort in a Tumultuous Middle East 2011-02-06T18:07:19Z And the unscientific consensus is that we’re in for a mediocre fall. Fall TV: Cable & streaming’s new offerings mitigate a mediocre broadcast season 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Still, while the movie might be mediocre, it looks fantastic. Was Ridley Scott's Robin Hood wide of the mark? 2010-09-23T12:53:00Z Pounding a flamboyantly mediocre show with King Kong's ferocity and enthusiasm of Gorilla Grodd is easy to do, and it would be a dishonest lass to claim it isn't fun. Netflix's self-serious "Jupiter's Legacy" is the superhero TV version of a Designer Imposter stinker 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Only mediocre poets write polemics, or poems that are explicitly for or against anything. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z |
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