Word: insipidities
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Stated another way, Peninsula writers are smart, while Inside Edge writers are stupid. Yet that's not quite right; the Harvard juniors behind Inside Edge aren't truly insipid. They're just acting stupid--because that's the way they think they're supposed...
Teach offers, in addition to a barrage of expletives and convoluted monologues, such insipid commentaries on post-industrial life as "You got no friends [in] this life." Ironically, he tells this to the only people who remotely care about him or his existence...
With the exception of the sardonic jester (John Berman), who embodies jaded urban humor at its best, the male characters are generally insipid. Thankfully, their female counterparts easily cover for this lack,... so to speak...
Rough Crossing, Stoppard's adaptation of Ferenec Molnar's classic Play at the Castle, has all of the usual Stoppard word wizardry as well as some wonderfully insipid musical numbers. On board the Italian Castle two writers scramble to put together their musical comedy before the boat reaches New York. In their way are a composer who can't speak, an actor who can't act, a prima donna with whom both the composer and the actor are in love, and an indefatigable porter. As they attempt to find an ending, the two writers offer typically Stoppard commentary...
This explains the difficulty Asian-American actors have had in trying to break through stereotypical roles like "Long Duck Dong" in Sixteen Candles. And when Asian-Americans aren't portrayed as geeky and insipid, they're cast as mysterious experts at Kung...