Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, Barber sports a short haircut; his dress is conservative; his circuit, lectures. the Peoples Bicentennial Commission is now the Peoples Business Commission; more sophisticated economic arguments have replaced the shallow demonstration-oriented approach. And for the first time Barber and Rifkin offer more than just a passing look at events and issues. They retain the mass appeal outlook--their book went directly into paperback, their language is lively, and their ideas vividly expressed. But the end product is not a fleeting rehash of old ideas presented in a new way. Instead The North Will Rise Again offers carefully thought...
Henry Fonda is one of the very few actors who could dive into this two-inch-deep pool of a play and emerge from it with an Olympic gold medal. A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull...
...Wedding. Robert Altman's long-awaited black comedy is an annoyingly shallow disappointment, but it's not, as you might expect, all bad. The company began with Nashville's loose, polyphonic structure, and crammed 48 characters into it, without, it seems, thinking much about who all those people were, and why we needed to meet them. You get the feeling that the improvisatory style which worked so well in Nashville just never got off the ground this time. The characters are awkward stereotypes, and the little vignettes are often cruel and crude. But the film gets better as it goes...
...dope and all that goes with it is not potentially funny--far from it. Yet Cheech and Chong, who wrote as well as starred in the movie, just don't seem to know how to tap the possible sources of humor. The laughs are too easy, too cheap, too shallow--it seems as if they got high one day and wrote up the movie in a couple of hours, but forgot to double check and see if it was funny when they regained their normal states of consciousness. All the obvious jokes are there--people stumbling around, people eating huge...
...together a strong selection of tunes in the middle of her new album, starting with an Elvis Costello hit, "Alison." With background vocal help from Andrew Gold and David Sanborn's mysterious alto sax weaving through the chorus, the song suits Ronstadt's voice perfectly, alternately showing a soft, shallow tone and then a full, resonant alto swell...