Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen's earlier style. Working again in comedy, the veteran filmmaker has abandoned the subtlety of his more recent creations, but if the majority of the humor is broad, it is also notably less bitter than in his earlier movies. The impotent, unattractive hero and his bevy of shallow beauties are gone...
...appear slim because Khomeini is a politician, not a man of principle. As time goes by, he is beginning to reveal his superficiality. The more he talks, the more he makes himself a laughingstock. I wish the whole world would read his statements to form an impression of this shallow devil. The actions he has carried out do not indicate that he is a rational person...
...embraces tantalizing contradictions. It is romantic and antiromantic. It is rational in discourse, yet a strange current of magic, mystery and folklore courses through it. Even its lovers are drawn to each other only as opposites. Helena (Harriet Walter) is deep, pure and singleminded; Bertram (Philip Franks) is shallow, lecherous and two-faced...
While many connected to Commencement take deserved vacations beginning on or around June 11, one ventable Harvard employee takes a three day break specifically to enjoy the excitement John Shallow, the kindly and talkative gent who has checked bags at the exit of Lamont library for 12 years, says the Tuesday Phi Beta Kappa ceremony annually starts his "three-day program." Shallow plans to hit all the public events and get to each early for a wide range of seat selection. You get to see a lot of the students. I don't know them all, but you see them...
...Shallow, a native Bostonian, has witnessed countless Commencements. But he says he's been disappoint with the last couple of Commencements speakers. "Watson was just so-so and Vance didn't impress me that much either." he says The highlight at Commencement for Shallow is the student orations: "I always like those. Some of them really thrust into the administration...