Word: glib
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...with the interior of a railway car. All of which does not detract from the film's credentials as a bona fide Hitchcock. In fact, viewers who encounter difficulties with the implicit morbidity and amorality that mark some of the Master's works will find this glib comedy-thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady-spy whose disappearance aboard a train furnishes the central event of the narrative. Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood make for a formidable pair of amateur sleuths. And there's a good old-fashioned stab...
...Sensing that something must be seriously amiss in an existence that drove her spouse to self-destruction, the elderly frau reaches out to those who people her reality, only to find indifference and a demented flair for exploitation that knows no bounds. Whether it be her egotistical children, glib reporters eager for another story or leftists looking for a living example of the abuses of capitalism, the story remains the same: a "What's in it for me?" mentality greets Mother Kuster's futile search for solace and love. A suffocating cynicism permeates almost the entire film, yet it ends...
...collage of war footage, old movie clips and the songs of John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney. The songs (recorded by pop stars like Elton John and Tina Turner) are affecting in their own terms, but they cannot underscore a subject like war. Too often they are used in glib juxtapositions, as when Japanese planes take off for Pearl Harbor to the strains of Here Comes...
...Elaine moved to Atlanta with their three children. He is a millionaire several times over, a self-made corporate presence who teaches industrial motivation to some of the largest firms in the U.S. So often do interviewers seek him out for his incisive football mind and for his sophisticated, glib delivery (still tinged with a Southern drawl) that NBC has erected transmitters outside his homes in Atlanta and Minneapolis to allow viewers to see and hear him from his living room...
...with the Nation section in March 1975. Recalls Associate Editor James Atwater, who wrote this week's cover story: "I saw a very agile and retentive mind at work." Nation Editor Marshall Loeb, who edited the story, joined Carter on a campaign swing last January. "He was never glib," says Loeb. "He had a phenomenal grasp of the issues." Reporter-Researchers Eileen Chiu and Anne Hopkins steeped themselves in Carter's background and closely followed his progress through the year...