Word: glib
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...Soviet navy. On a typical day, Kahn moved from seminars to informal discussions spouting such iconoclastic judgments as "The nuclear freeze is immoral" and "The welfare economy is the last refuge of the scoundrel." Such orotund pronouncements often infuriated critics, who charged that Kahn was more interested in glib provocation than reflective analysis...
...they are very different painters. Chia's light-operatic gifts have little in common with Cucchi's mucky, doom-laden earnestness: apoplectic chickens and mud slides in the cemetery, done in umber and black two inches thick. Nor does he seem a forced talent like Clemente, a glib draftsman whose "expressive" pictorial rhetoric is stretched paper thin to cover a paucity of formal skills. (Ah, to be young, overrated and in the Big Apple...
Nevertheless, expert dialogue sustains the novel. Sample the glib openness of Parlabane, whose career has included a bout as a gay, sado-masochistic academic (at Princeton, no less), a stint as a drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...
...erratic; the new Vanity Fair is eccentric. It has not found its personality. A profusion of thick dividing lines and varying column widths fight to keep a reader's attention from straying to the words. The writing often reflects a lack of firm editing. Short reviews offer mostly glib opinion with scant analysis; the writers, moreover, apparently believe that if one metaphor per sentence is good, several are better, even if contradictory. A rambling rumination on "an American loss of nerve" by former New York Times Critic John Leonard has, aptly, a running leitmotiv of Japanese fog. In other...
Roses In December (PBS). A taut documentary by Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone about the killing of Jean Donovan, a lay missionary who worked with the Maryknoll nuns in El Salvador. An exemplary piece of humane film making that avoided political sentimentality and glib answers...