Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MICHAEL J. Fox comes to this role with the disadvantage of having already established himself as the glib Young Republican Alex Keaton, who's forever offering us the secret of his success. The yuppie image of Fox's earlier roles biased critics against him at the outset. On the other hand, it has given Fox plenty of ammunition to flex his thespian (although rather slight bodily) muscles just enough to give an extremely convincing performance that both Siskel and Ebert admired. And it is quite admirable. Jamie Conway is a truly desperate soul, quite close to dulling his own smug...
Even among the legions of successful young investors operating on Wall Street in the headiest days of the bull market, David Bloom, 23, stood out as a precocious hotshot. Armed with little more than a good line and glib self- assurance, the son of a Manhattan pizza-restaurant owner persuaded scores of clients to give him some $10 million so that he could play the stock market on their behalf. For some time, Bloom's clients were satisfied: quarterly reports for their accounts showed savvy trades and fat profits...
Exports are up and imports are down, but the gap between the two is still large enough to keep the U. S. deep in debt. -- Once the hot new investment strategy, portfolio insurance loses popularity and takes part of the blame for Black Monday. -- A glib scam artist nets $10 million and a mail- fraud < charge. -- Digital audiotape is on the way. -- Sony will sell VHS as well as Beta...
...warehouse and watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever, there are trade-offs: such transformations, especially as they become pandemic, can seem overbearingly glib, clean and cute...
There are other allusions to Shakespeare. Besides the glib Marc Antony, Ui is also supposed to remind us, we are told at the beginning, of Richard III. Moreover, the entire play is written in blank verse, with rhymed couplets at the end of each scene...