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What remains is a trail of suddenly hollow accomplishments: Smith chosen "best all around" by his high school class; Grizzard's passing for 12 touchdowns in his last year at Annapolis; O'Neill's 12 varsity letters. And what did O'Neill and Smith break up over? In the Los Angeles Times, Coronado police cited witnesses who said, "They had different ideas about their future." Now there is no future...
Waterston struggles manfully to explicate this underwritten character, never more successfully than when he capers around the stage in delight at a couple of his own irreverent jokes. But it is a measure of how stately and hollow the enterprise is that the grandest moments are the scene changes, with their sweeping use of the wide stage, and the special effects of the finale, as a train pulls in to take Lincoln away to Washington, martyrdom and immortality...
...means toward some moral end: These things are preconditions for the kind of action which makes the moral life possible. For the liberal, redistribution and socialization have become ends in themselves, and there is no problem which will not admit a material and governmental solution. Nothing better demonstrates the hollow materialism of the liberal agenda than its callow indifference to family and to the moral environment in which children are brought up and educated, so long as public monies are available to exacerbate the problem...
Collins once described his band's ambition as "tickling people to death," which pretty much explains why The Orange Juice beat The Morrisey all hollow: tickling beats mourning, and subtlety beats overkill, and gentle youngadult introversion--in general--beats teen self-flagellation. At least in this kind of pop music, "this kind" being the kind with subtle interlocking guitars, witty lyrics and multiple melodies, the kind that descends from Beatles and Byrds and Cole Porter and learned from, but never imitated, punk...
...existential objections ring a bit hollow. How will it feel to be one clone among hundreds? the anticloners ask. Probably no worse than it feels to be the 3 millionth 13-year-old dressed in identical baggy trousers, untied sneakers and baseball cap -- a feeling usually described as "cool." In mass- consumer society, notions like "precious individuality" are best reserved for the Nike...