With the dimming of superhero comics' golden age, Mr. Lee tired of grinding out generic humor, romance, western and monster stories for what had by then become Atlas Comics.
To whom?" O.K., so his words happen to come from the Declaration of Independence, but "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal" never lets details interfere with its generic sentimental romance, its simplistic interpretation of one of the most complex, fascinating liaisons in American history.
It is this pleasure, in fact, that constitutes the basic, generic purpose of romance.
The seasonal rites that celebrate the yearly cycle of birth, death, and rebirth were seen by the Canadian critic Northrop Frye as the basis for the generic plots of comedy, romance, tragedy, and irony and satire.
He's one of the most likable American actors, and it's a pleasure to see him in something other than a mainstream romance or generic drama.
Each face-off exists only to facilitate comedy and a continuous fizz of generic pastiche, and even the romance isn't to be taken too straight.
The generic differences between comedy and romance are crucial to a proper understanding of their functions.
So if you're out there somewhere Doris (a generic name to indicate a future romance, devised by my college roommate), don't be surprised to receive a hand-drawn, plain Valentine's Day card -- in August.
But remember, Amazon didn't set out to build a generic computing infrastructure platform, they sold Harlequin romance novels, DVD box sets of Lost, tennis rackets and millions of other products.
"Family Romance," a quiet stunner, presents a generic father, mother, son, and daughter, all of them nude, anatomically correct, and exactly the same height (four feet two inches).
