Word: shallowing
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There are very few birds left on the Polynesian islands because of the local practice of collecting eggs and selling them at market. Brando plans to turn this island over to the French government as a sanctuary. I followed him as he waded hip-deep into a shallow lagoon. Brando dropped into the water floating on his back; I did likewise. A brilliant rainbow arched over the island. Above us were hundreds of wheeling birds and an early halfmoon. Our bodies turned slowly in the warm water until we faced the lowering sun. Brando smiled impishly. "Just a typical...
Wilson's Essay "Crime and Punishment" [April 26] is typical of the shallow analysis and rhetoric so popular with armchair criminologists. Those crimes most damaging to our society, corporate, whitecollar, governmental and organized crimes, are conveniently ignored. The real criminals are not, as Wilson would have us believe, burglars, thieves, or those who have otherwise developed "deformed personalities." The real criminals are those who have manipulated the growing interpenetration of the political and economic spheres of our society...
With its insistent use of racial slurs, its delight over words like "shit" and "fart," and an occasional gratuitous nude body, Tunnelvision is just like TV, only filthy. TV's story concepts are shallow copies of one another, and so are Tunnelvision's. TV news is flat, superficial and preoccupied with appearance. So is Tunnelvision's parody of it. With nothing more going for it than a high recognition factor for what it spoofs, Tunnelvision is an empty repetitious imitation of an empty, repetitious imitation. And, to paraphrase Santayana, one wasteland is enough...
...Howard Hughes, his emaciated, naked body covered only with a sheet. His skin was spotted with bedsores. Blood oozed from a swelling on the side of his head that had been cut open in a fall several months earlier. His blood pressure was barely recordable, his breathing was shallow, and he showed signs of severe dehydration...
Roodkowsky like Griffin sees a basic problem with the activist Catholic movement, a problem stemming from the failure of Vatican II's reforms to materialize. "The further away from Vatican II we get the easier it becomes to pursue either a shallow spiritualism or to say it's all bullshit, religion is the opiate of the masses and Marx and Freud were right," Roodkowsky said...