Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...several moments when characters might wrench out their feelings. But in the leading roles of a playboy who just wants to sing and dance, and a small-town gal who just wants to honor her dad, Harry Groener is all tinny energy and Jodi Benson is all hollow spunk, so even the big ballads don't pay off. He dances and sings just well enough to remind one of the greats without rivaling them. She is so amplified vocally that she sounds as though she were in a recording studio. The real blame belongs with the show's creators, notably...
...remains to be seen whether Browne's idealism can withstand the self-enforced isolation of the seas, and whether his marriage to Anne, mired in comfort and mutual tolerance, will outlast the rough shocks of separation. And what of Strickland's film? Will it be an expose of a hollow man and woman? "You're not making fun of us, are you?" Anne asks Strickland, shortly before Owen sets sail. "There's no reason Strickland should want to make me look bad," Owen reassures his wife...
Everyone covers up for everyone else, hushing every single innuendo, ignoring the obvious facts and doling out hollow compliments of every kind to every group. And since no one else will take a hard look at Asian-Americans at Harvard, Asian-Americans at Harvard will have to take a hard look at themselves. No matter what the politically correct...
...long as Saddam maintains his bloody totalitarian rule, efforts by Bush and his campaigners to revive memories of the glorious triumph are likely to ring false to many voters. Pat Buchanan and the Democrats can claim, misleadingly but perhaps effectively, that Desert Storm won at best a hollow victory...
...abandoned homes, nearly 5% of its housing stock. On the worst blocks, two-thirds of the buildings have collapsed or burned. "I think of Camden basically as a doughnut," says Joe Balzano, CEO of the South Jersey Port Corp. "Everything worthwhile is on the edges, and the center is hollow...