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...simply as opportunities for financial exploitation of people who have nowhere else to turn. Because the pay is so low, many homes are inadequately staffed, largely with unqualified personnel. The privately run homes also generally try to maximize profits by minimizing expenditures for food, offering meals that range from insipid to inedible; one operator attempted to feed his patients on 78? worth of food each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exploiting the Aged | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...must transcend the one-dimensional analysis of black culture which neglects its existential constituent and the insipid exaltation of black culture which ignores its functional component. This transcendence is accomplished by recognizing the existential need to preserve black cultural uniqueness ant the functional demand of achievement-orientedness within the black cultural perimeters--such is the golden mean to which black culture must adhere if it is to meet the challenges of post-industrial society...

Author: By Cornell West, | Title: Black Culture: The Golden Mean | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

Blazing Saddles is full of inspired concepts, but Brook's insipid direction dilutes their strength. His acting is no better: Instead of comedic precision or subtlety, Brooks offers the sort of mugging and clowning found in bad summer camp skits...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: A Blaze of Botched Chances | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...necessary depth to the production, especially in the prologue which demands equal skill in acting and singing. Even more important, the orchestra worked at a consistently intense level of excellence, playing best in the most dangerous, exposed passages. Even the costumes add to the total effect--the beautiful but insipid drapery of Ariadne and her nymphs counterpoints the geometric design of the harlequins' garb...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Ariadne auf Lowell | 3/16/1974 | See Source »

With a pedigree like this, it takes a lot of chutzpah to call this Jazz-Rock. But it is: Rather than laying insipid horn charts over standard rock and giving it the name, rock's emphasis on rhythm has been injected into jazz. Enter Miles. And the rest, as they say, is history. The six ensembles that have resulted from Miles's own experiments form a mini-spectrum making up one end of a larger spectrum of all jazz. At the rock end of the small one lies The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Zawinul's Weather Report, from what little...

Author: By Freddy Boyd, | Title: Miles's Favorite Child | 1/30/1974 | See Source »

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