Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Susan Channing sneer at each other across two inches of mutual nose. Leland Moss stalks and glowers while Vernon Blackman, as the smallest and most industrious of the Cockney quartet, loots the tambourine. Erhardt's direction keeps things moving although the first two acts seem hampered by the shallow sets, forcing all movement into one plane...
...Even in an age when oversimplification often passes for understanding, your shallow condensation of Albert Camus and existentialism is remarkable. TIME has summarily dismissed one of the great yea-sayers of the 20th century...
Maximilian Schell is persuasively shallow as the husband, a freeloading chess champion who has always been deeply in love with his wife's money. Believing her dead, he has seduced her winsome, scheming stepdaughter (Samantha Eggar), first in line for the family fortune. Ingrid appears incognito, hair darkened, the scars of her concentration-camp ordeal erased by surgery, and is not recognized at first because that would spoil the plot. She falls into a mistaken-identity hoax engineered by Samantha, soon finds herself impersonating a woman who is hired to impersonate her real self...
...Emily Bronte's novel of a century ago. This time the child was real, and murdered. The body of a ten-year-old girl who disappeared three days after Christmas when leaving her home in Manchester for a holiday excursion, was discovered three weeks ago, naked, in a shallow grave on the Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire...
...what I want, but it refers to so much in Jean-Luc Godard's technique and attitude that the one word alone is hardly an adequate rejoinder. Godard's work stands so disconcertingly on the borderline between genius and charlatanism--his detachment and suggestiveness shading imperceptibly into the shallow and ostentatious--that, whatever I say, you may well find The Married Woman and its heroine narcissistic bores. But let me try to explain...