Word: glib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis Levine was one of Wall Street's hottest young investment bankers. A managing director with Drexel Burnham Lambert, Levine, 33, was glib and gregarious, and had a knack for cultivating clients. In addition, he had a particular gift for obtaining information about impending hostile merger bids and then persuading takeover targets to hire his firm for their defense. According to federal law-enforcement officials, Levine also used his expertise for a less innocent pursuit: buying stock in companies that he knew were about to be acquired, and then selling the shares at a profit after a takeover bid sent...
...coherent and confident again, partly by means of a lightly worn classicism. For the Zueblin construction company's new headquarters outside Stuttgart, he has produced an improbable but marvelous synthesis. A kind of oversize trompe l'oeil portcullis, Zueblin House is monumental and yet entirely permeable, lucid but not glib. The clear, simple axes and pitched-roof profile are classical, and the expansive ectoskeletal shed seems snatched from some 19th century dream of the 20th. The building's priapic pivot alludes to Bohm's own pioneering work: the central spiraling stair could be an ancestor or descendant of the tower...
...institution, but numbers alone do not make particularly enthralling reading. The authors seem to have forgotten that they do not have a captive audience in a lecture hall. Their writing is unoriginal, occasionally sloppy, and often repetitive. Facts overlap; the same figures reappear in separate essays, with the same glib descriptions: President John T. Kirkland is always "charming," President Charles W. Eliot is "the right sort," George Santayana is eccentric. All of the characters are flat. The authors, some of whom are quite popular for their lively lecture styles, seem to have thrown these essays together on a free weekend...
...course he wants to spread his message, gather a flock, but why not be upfront about it? He could be straightforward without being blunt. His honesty wouldn't have scared anyone off--or turned any stomachs. His glib, manipulative preamble robbed his offer of any dignity or sincerity and drew only suspicion and distaste. Why does God have to creep in the back door...
...last is more than a glib question, for 9 1/2 Weeks, the movie everyone is purportedly talking about, has got to be the most torporific cinematic experience in recent memory. And one can thank Adrian Lyne for making the impossible happen: turning a potentially torrid sado-masochistic relationship between a beautiful supermodel (Kim Basinger) and a stud actor (Mickey Rourke) into an emotional and sexual wasteland...