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...It seemed to me a banal statement of the obvious....
...Memoir is banal and rationed: reduced by Rick Rubin, so to speak....
...Thus Turner made the banal bizarre, compelling, sinister. “All the magic of skill at the expense of all the magic of nature” complained one of his critics....
...The brilliant Vivian Maier and Saul Leiter found beauty in the banal: a doll in a trash can, the boiled-sweet colours of traffic lights seen through rain drops on a window....
...“My path is quite banal,” he shrugs over Zoom from his studio in the banlieues. “I arrived in Paris, aged five, with my mother....
...“There are people who have a baby coming and they can’t be in a one-bedroom apartment any more,” says J Philip Faranda, a New York agent....
...Intended to address an age of fractured politics, they were chiefly of the banal “Love makes the world go round” variety....
...A wry smile might form at the point where the poet, 68, falls instead for his 30-year-old secretary Valerie; the radical artist coexists with the banal man....
...And the positions adopted by both Theresa and Msemaji seem caricatured, banal, or simply confusing....
...His conclusion is withering: “The strong attraction to the dictatorships of Stalin, Mao or Castro was able to a certain extent, to serve as substitute for a banal local impotence.”...
...Prof Eduard J Bomhoff Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
...This may help you unwind and relax” — and some of it is downright banal — “This is the most practical way forward.”...
...That is a proposition so banal as to be almost tautological....
...In his deadpan photographs documenting the banal, automobile-oriented architecture of Los Angeles, Ruscha made the everyday epic....
...Legend has it that a young man once asked the financier J Pierpont Morgan what the stock market was going to do. “It will fluctuate,” Mr Pierpont is said to have replied....
...It may be banal to say that government support helps a rating, but it is eye-opening to see by how much....
...Grandees such as Samuel J. Tilden and John Jacob Astor gave vast sums to New York libraries, while in 1901 Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2m, one of the biggest single donations in history....
...and Film After Film, by J Hoberman – wonder where the future of cinema may take us. They do so by writing about the past....
...He was “not particularly gifted in leadership,” according to his teachers, but he moved confidently among his peers and articulately extolled the virtues of the novel he was reading at the time, J. R....
...It was also turning into a dog’s dinner until Cave’s ex-lover, the singer P.J. Harvey, present in the audience, was persuaded to join the Australian for their 1996 duet “Henry Lee”....
...Berger, though, has none of the storytelling skill of Malcolm Gladwell or Freakonomics’ Stephen J Dubner and Steven D Levitt....
...His blog is headed: “On the everyday, the banal and other important matters.” The more unpromising the territory, the more likely he is to put his ear to the ground and listen....
...“A timetable might sound like a banal proposition,” said Sandvoss as he leafed through a 30-slide presentation of his work, “but there are a whole lot more things to consider than the distance from A to...
...Like Sands, Rejali sees banal professionalism as key to the rise of government- inflicted torture, which he argues has increased since the 1970s....
...And much of the advocacy is banal, lacking in honesty about the choices available. Thus it’s no wonder that the media adopt an adversarial style. This sets in train a cycle of great distrust....
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