Word: flimsiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss built his operetta around the flimsiest of comic opera conventions, but it's loved nonetheless for its infectious waltzes. No matter what performers do to this durable music, it will intoxicate listeners. Lowell's Fledermaus refuses to take Strauss's joie-devivre seriously--which is no sin in itself--but director J. Scott Brumit fails to provide a substitute, leaving the show to wander in a wasteland of farce, sarcasm, and tastelessness...
...network anchor may, after years of struggle, bring nationwide fame and fortune. But there are now literally hundreds of men and women who, sometimes with the flimsiest of credentials, are making big names and big money anchoring local news programs. That ostensibly undemanding vocation is fast becoming the most financially rewarding job in journalism...
...important problem of the impoverished freelance writer. Rather than the low pay, it is the unprofessional attitude of editors. Queries remain unread for weeks and months. Agreements are reneged on. And there is a growing insistence that writers spend time and money producing an article on speculation, without the flimsiest of guarantees...
With this revelation, even the flimsiest rationale for the American air strikes fades away. The U.S. air strikes are clearly intended to intervene in a Cambodian civil dispute, and constitute an illegal and unwarranted interference in Cambodian internal affairs...
...college?" "I'm gonna be a homosexual."), but Weller's more concerned with exposing the evasions of commitment on which the put-on breeds. His characters can play straight-man for each other, but they cannot communicate any deep or pressing need. The superficial wit offers only the flimsiest of bridges over deeply troubled waters. One Boston critic complained that Moonchildren does injustice to the seriousness of the peace movement and other student causes by making too many jokes at their expense--but that is just the point. The more serious an issue the more fiercely these kids...