Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fine," Hornaday says, "but his eyes are dead." Even the judgments that benefit auditioners could prove painful if spoken within their earshot. Says Feuer: "We need someone who looks foolish to play Greg." His colleagues nod, and one young man is in. But the triumph is temporary and perhaps hollow. At this stage, the auditioners are moving on to "call-backs," the first step in a process that will, the producers admit, stretch up to the start of production in September. Open calls are being held in Los Angeles. Individual auditions will be granted to Broadway and Hollywood actors, including...
...dialogues and internal narrative fall flat for most of the book. It just doesn't ring true and is full of hollow platitudes and philosophical nonsense. Says one general to Converse: "Voltaire said it best in his Discours sur I' homme. Essentially he wrote that man attained his highest freedom only when he understood the parameters of his behavior." But not to be outdone in the philosophical merry-go-round, another general tells Converse: "Goethe said it perhaps better when he insisted that the romance of politics is best used to numb and quell the fears of the uninformed...
...outstanding or outlandish fashions usually end up wearing their owners. The majority of showy dressers look more like inhabitors than creators of style, because they channel all their efforts at self-improvement into surface area: Fashion becomes a questionable vehicle for self-expression when it is wrapped around a hollow tube...
...means .an isolated instance in the sales campaign that computer manufacturers have been waging at educational institutions. Salesmen offering incentives and deep discounts are swarming around wealthy school districts. "We are bombarded daily with catalogues of software, letters and phone calls," says Torance Vandygriff, principal of the Preston Hollow Elementary School in North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate: one $300 Atari 800XL computer for every 3,125 boxes...
...Harvard sucks," all 300 cried in a rapturous thunder, their clamor muting the hollow sound of the Harvard band...