Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both actors turned out excellent performances, they almost spoiled the film. It was as if they'd been given too much freedom, because Gould's happy-go-lucky interpretation made Segal's tortured gambler seem cliched, as though his problems were silly. Segal undercut Gould, too, making him seem shallow. With the actors canceling each other out like that, the film became curiously objective...
Reaching even further beyond the standard repertory, the all-Harvard team of Richard Kogan, piano, Lynn Chang and Robert Portney, violins, played a Trio by Moskowski, a turn-of-the-century Polish composer. The threesome showed their justifiably condescending attitude toward this shallow piece by appearing in Harvard sweatshirts, matching musical kitsch with visual kitsch. Fortunately, they treated this bubble gum in a sufficiently good-humored way to prevent its sweetness from becoming sickening...
Julie herself is as shallow as she is transparent, and Alvarez seems uneasily aware of it. He is continually describing her as "thin," "pale," "delicate," "Incorporeal" as if he would like to blame her when she fails to come off the page as a fully fleshed-out human being. She seems thin, he is trying to say, but there is really something to her. It doesn't work. In this book we can be sure that anything we don't know, Alvarez doesn't know either...
...headquarters. Created by Congress in 1863 to provide impartial scientific counsel to the Government, the 1,000-member academy and its hundreds of committees provide guidance on many critical questions-from food additives to automotive emissions. In this important assignment, Boffey argues, the academy has frequently failed, turning in shallow, inaccurate advice, serving as an ally for industry, the Pentagon and other agencies under scrutiny...
...European intellectuals against bourgeois society and in favor of the spartan regimes of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. In their eyes, the democratic societies of the West, despite their manifest freedoms, are associated with political corruption, economic crises, imported American tastes (by definition bad) and American values (by definition shallow). In contrast, Communist regimes are identified with social justice, economic security, cultural integrity and a bracing measure of discipline...