Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...drunk" manage to elicit the requisite Ms. Manners half-smile and hollow titter from a tired audience...
...first type of professor I've suffered under is The Hollow Man. Before I took his course, I had heard that this man was "the world's greatest living authority on Shriner poetry," and I was therefore expecting...
...Semitic and anti-intellectual, and his popularity is symbolic of the degree to which the Black underclass has been de-socialized. But to say as much would be to side with Jewish critics. How much easier then to refer to Farrakhan simply as a symbol of "defiance," an intentionally hollow word...
...point of no return. Where the pro- cess might lead was unforseeable. Once again the wily, ailing Marcos had seem- ingly entrenched himself by nominally democratic means, a strategy he has used on four occasions since 1972. But this time his victory, and his subsequent authority, seemed more hollow than ever...
...father Francois Duvalier was a soft-spoken middle-class physician who encouraged Haitian peasants to believe that he possessed magical powers through the use of the country's folk religion, voodoo. Elected President in 1957, Duvalier guaranteed liberty and well-being to all Haitians, but the pledge soon rang hollow. Duvalier forbade criticism of his leadership and declared himself President-for-Life in 1964. He posed for a portrait that showed an image of Jesus Christ clapping him on the shoulder...