I know it's important to be a good reader of books; but it's quite as important to be a good watcher of movies, and the contempt with which the audio-visual is held in the educational establishment is a pretty good predictor of a generation's mediocre viewing tastes and habits.
Right down to its wood tables, bottomless mimosas, and mediocre beach view, Abigale is interchangeable with hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of restaurants actively contributing to the Etsying of modern society.
In that area, he has outsourced his views to mediocre, ideologically driven advisers like Dan Senor and John Bolton.
The film might have disappointed critics and audiences, meeting with middling reviews and mediocre box office, but YouTube views of the prank, which involved a fake telekinetic customer causing chaos in a coffee shop, reached a huge 61m.
Was the view beautiful or mediocre?
Most franchises, majestic or mediocre, would take an upbeat view of the world from last night.
He tried desperately to cultivate another form of fame, and though his performance -- first as an art dealer, then as a rock musician -- was mostly mediocre, he never disappeared from view.
But along the way more than a few things went wrong, Mr. Jensen acknowledges, and now he is trying to find ways to fix the flaws that, in his evolving view, often allow mediocre chief executives — even outright failures — to become fabulously rich.
In portrait, the screen's vertical viewing angles are average, but its horizontal viewing angles are decidedly mediocre, which will make sharing videos with others difficult and reading at an angle impossible.
A recent Quinnipiac poll in Iowa finds opinions of Bush among likely Republican caucus goers to be mediocre at best, with 41percentt saying they view him favorably and 40percentt viewing him unfavorably.
