Word: glib
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...short, we become ideal fodder for concentration courses--smart enough to fulfill the requirements, cynical enough not to do the reading, glib enough to get a laugh and blase enough not to rock the boat...
PRICE OF FAME. Movie star Charles Grodin headlines off-Broadway in his own play about a movie star being interviewed by a reporter (the beguiling Lizbeth Mackay) who he realizes is out to do him in. He returns the favor more literally in a glib, genial formula comedy...
...glib Joey and loopy Larry are reasonably familiar figures, their juxtaposition in the same movie is wonderfully unexpected. Joey has troubles enough: debts to the Mafia and his former wife, affairs with two unstable women (Fran Drescher and Lori Petty) and a falling sales record. In fact, the only problem he has avoided is adultery with Donna. Yet when Larry starts waving his rifle and demanding to know who is cuckolding him, it is Joey who takes the blame...
Safire has reason to be pleased with his gift of glib: his Sunday "On Language" column in the Times magazine has made him the nation's amateur arbiter of usage, or as he puts it, "pop grammarian." He wears the crown lightly, for it is not accidental that one of his six language books is titled I Stand Corrected. As comfortable with punnery as with punditry, Safire is rarely the punctilious schoolmaster in private conversation. True, when a visitor used propinquity to describe two men working in the same law firm, Safire interjected, "Don't you mean proximity?" He insisted...
...beguilingly easy it has been for most white Americans to forget. How tempting to ignore the evidence that discrimination endures. How alluring is the myth that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...