Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy...
After receiving an honors BA from Princeton in 1958, he went to the London School of Economics to study political philosophy. While participating in anti-nuclear campaigns, he met Lord Russell. Schoenman feels it is "very flattering, but a bit fatuous," to be considered the eminence grise behind the 95-year-old philosopher. "What's it done with--telepathy?" he asks sarcastically...
POOR COW. Actress Carol White is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope in the London-slum flat she shares with a thief...
POOR COW. Actress Carol White is totally convincing as a woman who can find a bit of fun and some fatuous hope in the flat she shares with a thief...
...have a habit of losing. Richard Nixon doubtless has mixed feelings about Loeb's support in the current presidential primary. But better to be liked than hated by Loeb. In the 1964 primary, he referred to Nelson Rockefeller as a "wife swapper." Earlier, he called Leverett Saltonstall "that fatuous ass," and Eisenhower "that stinking hypocrite." So hot have been his attacks on the Kennedys that Bobby finally hit back: "If there's anyone more reckless with the truth, I don't know...