Word: insipids
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...arrived can be just as awesome. This is especially worth considering in the weird realm of regularly scheduled prime-time commercial television, that bargain basement of American culture, where the very nature of the environment usually precludes great notions and the merely good ones are rare. Instead, the insipid and the tasteless constantly push and shove, tug and haul, rudely jockeying for position in the ratings that mean the difference between survival and death for programs. Financially a couple of points make the difference between profits that are merely terrific for the network with a bunch of flops or simply...
...that emerges clearly in this relatively homogenous cast. Myers' physical control enables him to demonstrate the sophistication of Hamlin's direction; each twist of the neck and slide of the back shows perfect tuning. Paul Redford as the humpbacked Geronte and James Holt as the insipid suitor Leandro are also quite good...
This sort of drivel, reminiscent of the most insipid moments in A Farewell to Arms, occupies too large a space, too central a place, in the structure of the novel...
Finney has just turned 29--a year from 30, he notes, which will soon give way to 40--and he asks for a separation. To do what? his wife asks. "To shaft a thousand women," he cries, tearing at the colorless wallpaper that symbolizes their insipid existence. But Finney can as yet only dream about escape, and he rants and howls with frustration when he cannot muster the courage to cash in on his desire for all "the young...
...place Barbara Walters [May 3] in the company of such reporters as Cronkite, Reasoner and Chancellor is unforgivable. For these are men who are now the only really eloquent voices in that otherwise insipid area known as "broadcast journalism." They have the touch of a poet in their prose, the sagacity of a seer in their assessments. To them, the world we live in is something more than merely a matter of headlines...