Nor was the Administration terribly imaginative when it came to the housing crisis, which lay at the root of the economy's halting recovery.
When the play opened on Broadway in 1996, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley called it "a carefully mapped out debate that often feels like the senior project of a smart but not terribly imaginative college student".
And in perhaps the one overly contrived segment of the show, a number of contemporary performers were asked to donate personal mementos, which resulted in a not terribly imaginative array of souvenirs.
Supplemented with the same pattern in other colors, blue walls and pink sari fabric, Ms. Bridges' stately if not terribly imaginative room makes a good point for new decorators and eBayers alike: One can do worse than keep it simple.
Not knowing when his next billed episode would be, Nimoy said in an interview before "Momentum Deferred" aired that he's "waiting to see what these terribly imaginative writers come up with for the future.
"I've been doing business in China for decades, and I will tell you that yeah, the Chinese can take a test, but what they can't do is innovate," said Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO. "They're not terribly imaginative.
