Word: hollowness
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...liberal humanitarianism. An eleventh-hour signing of the Rome Statute to create such a court, authorized by former President Clinton, was a halfhearted and empty move. It was an utterly meaningless maneuver, and yet President George W. Bush and the Republican majority in Congress vigorously opposed even this hollow, symbolic gesture toward international...
...Hollow or hallowed, the Temple was a formidable economic engine. Although only 2 million of the ancient world's 5 million Jews lived in the region, all were expected to pay a yearly half-shekel Temple tax. Historians have not definitively established a shekel's worth, but certainly the total earnings were great. At the three pilgrimage holidays, the economy shifted into overdrive. Jewish law required that sacrificial animals and grain offerings be "unblemished." Rather than risk spoilage along the way, most pilgrims raised the sacrificial goods at home, sold them and used the proceeds to buy fresh items...
Catching up on movies some weeks ago, I saw "Sleepy Hollow" and "Gladiator" back to back, two nights running. It was a mistake. I dreamed for a week about severed heads...
...ourselves-in an age where children are brainwashed on a regular basis by the hollow spectacle of Pokemon, a family film bursting with imagination like Spy Kids is welcome and desperately needed relief (See Spot Run? God help us all). Rodriguez's screenplay may verge dangerously close to vapidity from time to time, but its honest-to-goodness heart cannot be denied. And there's a certain pleasure to be had in watching the film's duo of precocious youngsters-Vega comes with the kind of tough-cutie charms that suggest she could develop a real edge as an actress...
...rate "Gladiator" for shelflessness? A little higher than is comfortable for a Best Picture, I would say. Russell Crowe is one of those actors who is interesting to watch, but, gaudy decapitations aside, "Gladiator" advances unapologetically from cliché to cliché (the "Spartacus"-meets-"Sleepy Hollow" note, the British Romans, the decadent incestuous homoerotic touches dragged in from "Spartacus," "Quo Vadis" and elsewhere) and on the video shelf, is never going to be more than routine escapist entertainment defaulted to when you can't find something else. Same with "Titanic" two years ago. The winner this year should have...