Word: glibness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mies van der Rohe in the 1950s. Architectural movements since then -- notably postmodernism -- have been purely superficial, decorative responses to that style. "That's why this movement is so exciting," says McDonough. "What is it made out of? How is it made? We're not talking about just another glib exercise in artifice. We're talking about a fundamentally new principle of design...
...embark tentatively on a relationship with Ben (Danny Aiello), who drives a cab, her pals send up a chorus of envy and disapproval. The acting is sharp, and Bill Duke's direction is realistically grounded. But writer Ivan Menchell Neil Simonizes loss. He can be funny in variously glib and cozy ways. What's beyond him is the kind of laughter, gallant and sardonic, that can brace and inspire us in adversity...
...editor Tina Brown, four months on the job since she arrived from sassy Vanity Fair, faced intense opposition to the cover from the magazine's senior staff. Several objected to the painting -- not for its blunt representation of interracial harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about a very personal subject," according to Lorenz. Brown overruled them all. "It was an important cover for us to do," she said. Pressing her plan to spruce up the magazine's dusty, tweedy image, Brown promises more changes yet. Just wait till readers take in her Eustace Tilley, the magazine...
...certain places, these references are convincing. Aegeus (Ben Vilhauer), the king of Corinth who has banished Medea, appears as a sleazy politico with a carefully blow-dried hairdo. He thunders that "the best things in life are family and country." Vilhauer's glib, funny performance suggests Medea as a figure in rebellion against conventional morality and "family values" fascism. A contemporary poem which the chorus recites to open the show similarly connects Medea's story to issues of abortion and societal restrictions on women...
...Clinton's No. 2, Al Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though a bit stiff and repetitious -- it would be hard to count how many times he accused the White House of practicing "trickle-down economics" -- had a sharp answer for everything; he came off, at worst...