Joel Banal (born 1958), former Filipino professional basketball player
In 2008, Contis was hailed as the Best Actor at the 24th PMPC Star AwardsBest Actor award for Banal, a film directed by GMA reporter Cesar Apolinario (who won as Best Director in the Metro Manila Film Festival in that same year).
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While on the show, Bill Maher, along with other panelists Arianna Huffington and Dana Gould, begin to criticize Brian's book, stating that it does not meet the expectations of the public and is shallow, repetitive, unhelpful and banal.
On 11 April 1941, after the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia, Slavko Kvaternik, Deputy Leader of the Ustaše issued an order in which all state questions would be dealt by the Banal Government Department (Odjel banske vlasti).
It has been differentiated from “classic sexism” which Quart describes as being “un-ironic, explicit, violent, banal” and which one could likened to the comments regarding legitimate rape made by Missouri Republican Senatorial candidate Todd Akin or "rape rape" by comedian Whoopi Goldberg.
The comic features the Penny family and their banal existence in American suburbia; it is distributed by GoComics.
The photographer Harold Chapman recorded this period in his book The Beat Hotel (Gris Banal, 1984).
Janet Burroway in the New York Times Book Review writes of the protagonist in part One that his "parental concerns seem banal, and his ambivalent speculations less than engaging".