Word: hollowing
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...Francis' father drags him before the bishop, a portly libertine who cares more about his lunch and his feud with the secular power of the local governor than about the ravings of a boy with a holy mission. His admonitions to refrain from "subverting the established order" ring as hollow as a parody of a dime-store dictator...
Such arrogant and naive optimism sounded questionable even then. Today it has a particularly hollow ring. For after years of sunny admiration, science suddenly finds itself in a shadow. No longer are scientists the public's great heroes or the beneficiaries of unlimited funding. Unemployment runs high in many scientific disciplines; the number of young people drawn to the laboratory in certain key areas has diminished significantly. Indifference to scientific achievement is the mood of the moment. Even such bold ventures as new voyages to the moon or Mars, construction of giant atom smashers, and journeys to the depths...
...Bertolucci is too busy using facile Freudianisms to account for Paul's aggression and Jeanne's passivity, or emphasizing yet another in a long chain of random perversities (like Mother's loves for Father's boots). He does throw in a welcome parody of Godard and his films, all hollow Hollywood-loving childishness, abetted by the eternally adolescent actor Jean-Pierre Leaud. But even its welcome is soon worn out. And the last tango itself is pathetic: painted Fellini faces contort, and toothpick bodies sway on a dance floor as Paul tries to impress Jeanne at ringside with foreign accents...
Slow Growth. Even if Washington eventually gets the increase rolled back, it will be a hollow victory. As Interest Committee Chairman Burns well knows, most other interest rates are rising anyway-partly because of decisions by Federal Reserve Chairman Burns. To keep the fast U.S. economic expansion from turning into a runaway inflationary boom, the Federal Reserve lately has been slowing the growth of the nation's money supply. In addition, individuals and corporations took several billion dollars out of the U.S. during the recent monetary crisis and exchanged the greenbacks for other currencies that they rightly guessed would...
These are manifestations of the Republican hierarchy. Even the registration form for the Fieldman School is littered with the hollow, jive rhetoric of the Young Voters for the President...