Word: hollowing
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This role is wonderfully defined by Alan Arbus, a resourceful comic actor Lest hopes be raised too high, however, let it quickly be added that Arbus is a supporting player in Law and Disorder, and that this scene is remarkable in a film that is otherwise filled with hollow horse-laughs about the hard lot of life in Manhattan. The two stars of the movie are Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine, who appear as a couple of working stiffs fighting back against the indignities of existence in a big city their children are molested, flashers approach their wives...
...strategy to those ends is no mystery. Indeed, it has been repeated so often that it has the hollow resonance of a cliché: The U.S. must increase domestic energy supplies while decreasing consumption. Studies by the Ford Foundation and the Federal Energy Administration present the options in detail. They leave no doubt that energy conservation is possible with some sacrifice. All that is lacking is a firm decision to commit the U.S. to a course of action...
...praise for Amherst's move toward equality for women--he said it was "very fine and should be applauded"--rings a little hollow while Harvard continues to admit more men than women. Instead of applauding Amherst, Harvard should follow its lead by instituting one-to-one admissions...
...consummate theatrical brio, Shaffer has attuned the audience to some of its deepest desires-sin, guilt, confession, atonement and a degree of redemption. Dare one say that he has also blinded the audience to his exaltation of deranged violence as religious passion and his derogation of civilizing reason as hollow passivity...
...have had to load the bottom of the shaft with bits of lead. Now Shamrock Golf Co. of Los Angeles has devised a technique for placing that additional weight in the club head itself - right at the "sweet spot" where metal meets ball (see cut). Shamrock leaves a hollow slot in the head, then fills each iron with a precisely measured slug of lead...