Word: flippants
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...Wolfe has experienced the serious and the considered, even if his more famous works seem on the flippant side to some. Wolfe earned a B.A. cum laude from Washington and Lee University in his native Virginia and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. After Yale, he started climbing a traditional journalism ladder, moving rapidly from The Springfield Union to The Washington Post and then on to The New York Herald Tribune...
Romano may be flippant, but he is not without charm, which Mastroianni's warm voice, Latin gestures and aging face bring out. Who can resist a man who is willing to wade in a medicinal mud bath to retrieve a lady's hat--while dressed in white tie? Not Anna (Elena Sofovna), nor even her dog Sabatchka (the word has deep metaphysical meaning--little dog--and becomes a silly symbol of the relationship between Anna and Romano...
WITH HIS psychological studies of unhappiness, Ingemar Bergman may have sunk Swedish filmmaking into the depths of depression. With My Life as a Dog and now The Mozart Brothers, Sweden surfaces again. Brothers is a flippant film about the links between music and Mozart, opera and eroticism. Unfortunately, it is also a hodgepodge of inexplicable touches...
Strange pictures: deadpan but not flippant, ironic but not campy. They ( used advanced elements of photographic language -- extreme distance from the subject, unemphatic treatment, carefully achieved but understated color -- but to pose what questions? Not until the Houston show, assembled by Curator Anne W. Tucker, were Sternfeld's purposes really clear. The title American Prospects, which applies to both the show and an accompanying volume of his work (Times Books; $40), points to Sternfeld's ambition for his work to be placed in the line of two other great photo essays on the national mood: Walker Evans' American Photographs...
...feel presumptuous enough to condemn all academia with a flippant phrase and a frustrated squeal. I despise people who take the discussion too seriously, as well as those who don't. I'm just thankful that I'm not like the others...