Word: fatuousness
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...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. In one of the fall's best shows, Mike and Elaine in various skits leave tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human...
...century will convince him; he is talking about something quite outside that framework. Given, however, that the United States is a major power in an increasingly inter-connected world, and that the good will of allies and neutrals is indispensable to a world leader, the gentleman's proposal is fatuous...
Caught between a defense of Eisenhower's record and his own vision of the future, Nixon has repeatedly urged that "a platform is not to stand on, but to build on." Ignoring this device, Kennedy, in a similarly fatuous construction, tells cheering crowds, "this country is great, but it can be greater"--as if Nixon thought the U.S. were soon on the decline...
...TIME, Sept. 26), this pair, who come on stage in various roles and improvise, who glance at the life all around them and criticize, spend a great deal of their time being funny. By the end of the evening they have left tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They go at each other as a way of going at many things else: they are mamma and papa, or mother and son, or lover and mistress, or brother and sister, or monsieur...
...Entertainer. In a seedy music-hall performer, England's Angry Playwright-Scenarist John Osborne has a farfetched but arresting symbol of all that is wrong with England. But the vigor of Osborne's complaint and, above all, Laurence Olivier's relentless grotesqueries as the fatuous vaudevillian provide fascination on the screen...