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...Diane English and Joel Shukovsky (who have parlayed the show's success into a four-series development deal with cbs), Murphy Brown is cleverly written, but in a smug, soulless, metallic way. The characters are all Johnny one-notes, the satire of TV news obvious and unoriginal. Pompous anchorman, shallow news bimbo, ratings-obsessed station executives -- once it all might have been daring, but such TV navel gazing is now painfully commonplace...
...humorless and huffy about the feathered costume for Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens and the rest of the cheery inanity. One can insist that the theater be meaningful and memorable. Or one can, more sensibly, check one's higher consciousness at the door and have a shallow but rollicking time...
...fanfare and broad pundit support, he announced that the United States, along with some of its Western allies, had agreed to a $24 billion aid package for the former Soviet Union. This is great news for Russia, and also for America, which has shown itself not to be as shallow and self-absorbed as Buchanan wants...
...life of merely annoying everyone around him, and the "celebrities" with whom they associate are fools caught up in fads. Despite the film's humor and high sarcasm, it captures the dark, oppressed life inside the mind of its heroine. She is a selfunderstanding alien in this land of shallow monsters...
Despite Chellis' claims that each woman suffered setbacks on her route to selfempowerment, each portrayal is a finished success story. Any adversities, complications or relapses of the women are glossed over by Chellis' shallow analysis. It seems that all of these "Unfortunate" women were fortunate enough to have caring support networks, sufficient financial resources and an endless array of opportunities...