Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ogden is as shallow and one-sided as the rest of the characters. Brando's performance must be one of the great jobs of subordinating personal acting style to the strong will of a director who has carefully modulated each nuance of movement and dialogue...
...soon enough. Even if Great Lakes pollution ceased immediately and completely, Chemist Robert Rainey of Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports in a recent Science magazine article, it would still take the natural flow of water through the lakes a shockingly long time to purify them. Because they are relatively shallow, Lake Erie could purge 90% of its polluting wastes in about six years, Rainey calculates, and Lake Ontario in 20 years. But Lake Michigan would need 100 years to achieve the same degree of purity, and Lake Superior would not approach its pristine state until...
...current show, at Manhattan's Durlacher Bros. Gallery, Tooker's eight latest paintings show that he is now using less spacious vistas, concentrating on shallow scenes that he calls "bas-reliefs." The themes that concern him are loneliness, racialism, death and youth. Lunch shows people packed closely at a Chock Full O'Nuts-style counter, munching in their respective dream worlds. Landscape with Figures shows haggard young people crouched in a huge honeycomb, and is "my way of protesting the situation kids are in now. I feel sorry for them with the draft, the pressures to conform...
...butt of the kind of jokes that can kill a candidate. One, referring to his sometimes sanctimonious air, goes "It's all right for George to want to be President, but I object to his using the White House as a steppingstone." Another: "Deep down, he's shallow." When his supporters opened a special research office in Lansing, wags dubbed it "George Romney's Office of Presidential Exploration-GROPE...
...press and Republican leaders to hear such irresolution, even though they realize that a firm stand against the bombing, for example, would open Romney to severe attacks from hawkish rivals within his Party. A Washington reporter, after a long talk with Romney, offered, "Deep down, he's really very shallow." It is now a standing joke...