Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kvitsinsky, during arms-control talks in Geneva in 1983. His wry and engaging new work at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn., persuasively imagines the human fabric of a similar fictional enterprise. Blessing's conceit is that the Soviet negotiator, far from a stereotypical xenophobe, is worldly, glib and cynical, while the American newcomer is stuffy, dogged, socially inept but passionately idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. This divergence triggers a very funny opening scene: the Soviet makes friendly overtures -- "Formality is simply anger with its hair combed" -- while the American priggishly resists and snaps, "I am disappointed...
...argument begins to get lost it also becomes offensive. He refers to "convenience abortions." If Pakaluk had ever experienced the procedure he would not use such glib language. Abortion is always the lesser of two evils for women, and not a small one on account of being less terrible than bearing an unwanted child...
...composer who speaks no German and has never commanded a Ring before. Rosenthal leads a symphonic performance noteworthy for its clarity and color. At its best, as in Die Walkure, Rosenthal's view of the score is fluid and graceful; at its worst, as in Gotterdammerung, it is merely glib. "There is too much emphasis on heaviness in the Ring," says the diminutive Rosenthal, who conducted the Seattle Symphony from 1949 to 1951. "I discovered the French side of this music, the fantastic orchestration that I never suspected was there...
...rumpled dresser with a former athlete's disdain for exercise as well as a fondness for junk food that has doubled his chin, Bradley is not particularly telegenic. Although he has a wry sense of humor, he is too deliberate to be glib. But Bradley, who actually writes his own speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says...
Would decorum be trampled and tradition flouted? Would speeches become superficially short, chopped into glib "sound-bites" for the nightly news? Or worse, would they be too long, as Senators postured on parochial issues for cable-TV addicts back home? And what if viewers discovered that "the world's greatest deliberative body" was often a crashing bore? Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana complained quite accurately that the Senate's archaic rules and long, meandering speeches would not air well. "Unlimited debate," Johnston reminded his colleagues, "is not pretty." But TV is everywhere in America, and because...