Word: glib
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Similarly, Phillip White's Claudius is not regal and controlling, but rather slimy and pretentious. When he commands Hamlet to "be as us in Denmark," White is less like a cool, calculating usurper and more like a glib James Spader. He's irreverent and funny, but the eloquence of his "o, my offence is rank" speech is undercut by the flippancy of the rest of his portrayal...
...situation this fall was especially bad. The activation of student phone lines fell behind schedule, with glib promises of speedy activation simply going unmet. All of this was on top of the normal problems that plague HSTO at the beginning of each school year, including egregious billing errors and extremely slow line repairs. We may only be students, but as consumers we deserve better than this...
...smart and glib and redolent of the kind of backchat--over the top or below the belt--that fuels the fashion biz. "It's so major!" gushes Polly Mellen, creative director of Allure. The result could be trivial if director Douglas Keeve were not also focusing on Mizrahi's gathering nerves. The low point comes when a staffer brings in a copy of Women's Wear Daily that headlines the latest from Jean-Paul Gaultier, the tallest tree in Mizrahi's particular sector of the fashion forest. Gaultier's revelation? Eskimo chic. Mizrahi throws the paper on the floor...
Richard's best friend and worst enemy is the daft, cheerful Gwyn Barry, whose glib utopian novel, Amelior, has rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Stupid, shallow and immensely popular, Gwyn resembles Tod Friendly, the ex-Nazi from Amis' last novel, Time's Arrow. Of course, the public laps up Amelior, as Richard (who, as a soon-to-be-ex-novelist, has plenty of time on his hands) begins to plot revenge...
...GLIB has appealed the lower court's rulingwhich permitted SBAWVC to hold this year's protestmarch and exclude gays from the parade. The U.S.Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on April25, Van Ness said...