Word: glib
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...Running Mate is by no means a failure, but it lacks the sharp sting of reality that made Primary Colors a success. At the center of Colors was Jack Stanton--a faux Bill Clinton as mesmerizing, repellent, glib, eloquent (take your pick) as the real thing. Charlie Martin can't carry that kind of weight. Decent, well-meaning, pragmatic, Charlie returns to his home state after his crash-and-burn presidential bid to run for a third Senate term. But he succumbs to unexpected distractions--including a romance with a glamorous Manhattan designer and the appearance of a previously unknown...
...antics of Chandler Bing on "Friends," and he is unwholly suited for the heroic turn he makes later in the movie. Bruce Willis plays the glamorous hitman a little too glamorously, and his comedic style appears to be to speak as little as possible while still looking glib and threatening. Having appeared in the more serious The Green Mile, Michael Clarke Duncan plays the more convincing hitman, probably from having been a bouncer in real life. On the other hand, the women are a real joy in the movie. While not exactly plumbing emotional depths, Natasha Henstridge moves past...
...disparage the making of New Year's resolutions. ("My resolution is not to make resolutions" is surely the most irritating rejoinder since the deeply annoying "Let's not and say we did.") But it's easy to see why the snobs wince. Yes, New Year's resolutions are glib, sanctimonious and self-serving. Yes, they are the haiku of holiday kitsch. But isn't glib, sanctimonious, self-serving kitsch the glue that holds us together as Americans...
Jackson vehemently denies that he is blinded by the glib moral equalizing that afflicts some NATO critics, who seem to think that NATO and Milosevic are equally responsible for the carnage in the Balkans. But at times he seems to be trying to have it both ways. On the CNN show Crossfire, he maintained that NATO's bombing campaign "corresponds with the kind of ethnic-cleansing violence you see in Kosovo." But two days later he told me that he thinks NATO's bombing has served "our moral mission of stopping the ethnic cleansing." He adds...
...writing, the long version, the short version--that he slept through his 8 a.m. wake-up call and was still scribbling as the votes tolled, guilty, not guilty. He knew--everyone knew--that every time he had opened his mouth about the scandal he had made things worse: too glib, too bitter, too unbowed, too phony. But as Dick Morris once said, Bill Clinton will make every mistake a President can make, but he will make it only once. This time he was so determined to get the tone right that he kept searching for the word he knew...