Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most who visited the quasi-underground memorial last week had simpler, visceral reactions. Said former Marine David Zien of Medford, Wis.: "My chest was hollow, and I was a bit limp. It just overwhelms you." Friends and kin looked for names, aided by roving guides carrying alphabetized directories. Minera Peyton said she had come from Elsah, Ill. to "honor my son," dead for twelve years She visited National Cathedral on Friday at 3 a.m. to hear William Peyton's name and she liked the severe granite memorial. "It's not ostentatious," she said. Nearly everyone ran their hands...
...Volunteer State seems more interested in the economy than in foreign policy questions, and Beard's own campaign practices, including his sluggishness in disclosing federal campaign financing information, make his charges right hollow. The Republican says he expects today to bring him victory in "the biggest upset in the history of Tennessee politics." More likely, it will bring a massive repudiation of his New Right Negativism...
...hollow tradition of student leadership makes ascents like Smith's unremarkable. The most comic example of the rapid creation of a student leader occurred last spring, when a sophomore collected about 100 signatures at a couple of meals from students objecting to the campus-wide referendum on the constitution, saying it was poorly publicized and potentially misleading. This one-man, several-hour crusade vaulted the fellow behind closed doors before the Faculty Council, where he was asked to argue for the Faculty's disapproval of the referendum results on behalf of disgruntled students...
...MOUNTAIN!" Fitzcarraldo shouts exultantly, as the subtitles drain their stock of capital letters. "I want my opera house!" he screams, staggering around the church beltry that overlooks the squalid shantytown where he proposes to build it. Long before the film is over, this sort of rhetoric sounds as tinny, hollow, and mechanical as the old Caruso 78s that constantly blare out of Fitzcarraldo's favorite icon, his gramophone...
...synthesized German pop soundtrack intrudes for much of the film. There is nothing to sustain the meaning, and it is no wonder that Fitzcarraldo falls apart. It's like watching a Wagnerian opera where the sound has been turned off. All that remains are frantically moving lips and hollow gestures...