Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatically honest, alive and exciting. Instead, Jutra's wordy confessional sounds as though something may have been lost by rendering it into English, and often looks like a smattering of Jean-Luc Godard uneasily combined with the self-absorption of Fellini's 8½ or the glib self-exposure of Arthur Miller's After the Fall. "I wish only to move, surprise, provoke," Jutra has written. "The important thing in life is to have fun. The rest is a hoax." Unhappily, the mirror he holds up to his own life reflects precious little fun. After a while...
...cream. If they then get cramping ab dominal pains, nausea and diarrhea, even worse than their original com plaints, their doctors usually put them on a still blander diet - meaning more milk. If such patients shirk their milk drinking and their symptoms diminish, the usual explanation is a quick, glib suggestion that they must be allergic to milk. Not so, report two University of Colorado doctors in the Journal of the A.M.A. The trouble is far more likely to be a shortage of the enzyme that the body uses to digest milk sugar (lactose...
...Years on the Bottle. Glick's telephone call-in program is just one of dozens that are proliferating across the U.S., giving the platter parades and baseball broadcasts a run for the ratings. Glick, 43, now with his eighth radio station since 1953, has become a glib, gemütlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress...
Indeed, housing is but one example of the planners' indifference to the poor and their problems. Only four pages of the General Plan discuss the "disadvantaged," while ten assess transportation problems and another ten present an essentially trivial bibliography. Despite the glib slogans--"planning for people," "urban renewal without human renewal cannot work"--the problems of poverty and discrimination rest in a stratosphere of generality. The New Boston's designers outline a series of thoroughly acceptable and thoroughly unoriginal goals: "Break down discriminatory barriers that waste talent, inhibit motivation, limit educational achievement..." or "Eliminate adult illiteracy." Very nice. Very necessary...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...