Word: callowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residents and tutors say that behind its callow facade, Winthrop maintains a careful balance between frivolity and academic and intellectual pursuits...
...them, mostly. Maggie Smith, as Sebastian's aloof, vindictive mother, and especially Natasha Richardson, as his possibly insane cousin, who was with him when he died, are superb adversaries, both of them informing Williams' lyrical dialogue with the rich emotional life it must have. Only Rob Lowe fails, more callow med student than the requisite mediating psychiatrist...
...down. Way down. Her last dire days, her body racked with junk and her voice cracked like thawing ice, have been rued and romanticized. When she died in 1959, the superstructure of the legend was already raised: the instinctive jazz talent, full of early genius, snuffed out by racism, callow commercialism and self-indulgence, her best work far behind...
Apart from unsafe wenching, Kennedy was not as reckless as the subtitle proclaims. He cut up a bit at prep school and wrote raunchy, callow letters ("Have jewed sled down to $3 and maybe down more"). But there was none of the wildness usually associated with offspring of rich, flamboyant families. Instead we find a likable boy with a cool head and an IQ of 119 who was more interested in good times than good grades. He was a competent sailor, played some football and swam competitively until stomach trouble, fevers and a puzzling weight loss curtailed his activities...
...Clements (The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid) took over. But something was wrong with the story. "It just wasn't compelling," Katzenberg says. "Aladdin's journey didn't engage." At first, the hero had a mother with a personality forceful enough to overwhelm the callow hero. But then, every character and event did. "We would look at the story reels," Katzenberg said, "and even Jasmine was blowing him away." A year into development, the boss junked the script...