Word: fatuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This indicates a radically transformed market structure. In art as in other markets at the end of Reagan's economic follies, America sinks and Japan rises. In this context it is fatuous to utter bromides about art's being the Common Property of Mankind. Americans now begin to view the outflow of their own art with bemused alarm -- just as Italians and Englishmen, at the turn of the century, watched the Titians, Sassettas and Turners, pried loose from palazzo and stately home by the teamwork of Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, disappearing into American museums. "The Japanese are awash...
...example, the ever fatuous Cardinal O'Connor could not resist blaming the park assault on, well, society. We must all "assume our responsibility," he & intoned, "for being indifferent to the circumstances that breed crimes of this sort." What circumstances? "Communities which know nothing but frustration...
Caveat Emptor! L'etat, c'est moi! Don't it make your brown eyes blue! Not mine, certainly, but I confess to feeling a surge of indignation, all the same, at this fatuous manifestation of a meddling, bloated, neo-Johnsonian "Great" Societish welfare state Gorgon that I had long hoped would never rear its ugly head in the sartorially innocent groves of Eli academe...
Keaton's performance and a handful of funny lines are not enough, however, to save Baby Boom from its insubstantiality. If it weren't for the bitter aftertaste of the movie's fatuous treatment of an important question or its vitriolic stereotyping, Baby Boom would be completely forgettable...
...property, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. It dares to plump for the supremacy of two old-fashioned notions: romantic love as the meeting of true minds and the English language as a tool for wooing and wonder. The script challenges its star to be at once noble and fatuous, strong and swooning, utterly in control and desperately in love -- all of which Martin handles as gracefully as if he'd written it himself (which he did). And in case you forgot, the last film fellow to play Cyrano, Jose Ferrer in 1950, got a best-actor award. "I hope...