Word: insipidness
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...name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well. "We established the principle that journalists have a right to criticize restaurants by name just as movie...
BILLED as a "Brazilian Spectacle," a celebration of South American peasant life, Ariano Suassuna's The Rogue's Trial is an often entertaining, somewhat uneven, quasi-insipid piece of theater. It is, we are informed as soon as the lights have dimmed, "a highly moral story," a plea for mercy. The high moral which the play espouses, however, turns out to be that regardless of what one does on earth, heaven is ultimately attainable. It is no wonder that the Brazilian government and coffee-growers have supported the production of the play...
...points like this, Young reinforces his meaning with interviews that always prove insipid, offensive, or both. A reclining David Crosby explains...
...film was shown earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, it provoked bitter arguments and a few fistfights. It must have been a slow year. The only curious thing about La Grande Bouffe is that, dealing with such subject matter, it turns out to be so thoroughly insipid...
...viewpoint. Consequently, instead of a spectrum of viewpoints which could at worst be called middle-class, Cuba's press has only one government line. Where could a writer living in a country which has been the victim of foreign interventionists express outrage over the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia? Insipid thought control becomes absurd. Cubans are instructed that Ernest Hemingway exploited them because he made money from writing...