Word: brainlessly
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THERE IS ALWAYS something vaguely amusing about the study of pop culture, especially when it's taken too seriously. Like a teacher reading all sorts of bogus significance into a student's simplistic works, so too do the great Makers of Pop Significance read profundity into the sometimes brainless meanderings of rock and movie stars...
Dreyfuss and Stapleton attempt to compensate for much of the confusion created by the film's disjointed and cliche-ridden script and, to a great extent, are successful. Dreyfuss' depiction of the sex-hungry artist whose ambitions are constantly thwarted by his brainless girlfriend (Nancy Allen) make for some memorable moments. More notable is Stapleton, who potrays the archetypal needling grandmother who inevitably winds up alone. The scenes with Stapleton provide the best moments in the entire film...
...popular-music industry is in a sorry state when it can present only performers whose sole purpose is to look peculiar and act extreme. Groups like the Culture Club are brainless...
Washington, in fact, is a hotbed of snobbery. It is an essentially brainless city that runs, in the shallowest way, on power and influence and office. Access to power is the magic-access to the President, or access to the people who have access to the President, or access to lunch at the White House mess, or to Ed Meese across a crowded room, or to those chunky little cufflinks with the presidential seal. But Washington is like other cities: the snobs reveal themselves by the clothes they wear and the clubs they join and the schools they send their...
Examine one fairly new item: airhead. It means, of course, a brainless person, someone given to stupid behavior and opinions. But it is a vacuous, dispiriting little effort. The word has no invective force or metaphorical charm. When slang settles for the drearily literal (airhead equals empty head), it is too tired to keep up with the good stuff...