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Should the song have been remembered for its message, not its messengers? Perhaps, since the singing characters had already been portrayed as shallow bimbos. Before intermission came, the show also managed a salvo aimed at black urban culture. Stunned silence from some and guffaws from others greeted Nick Gordon's caricature of a performance as Sheik Ir-Bouti, recently returned from Long Island. In addition to the odious attributes of the show's writing, the majority of the actors suffered from overplaying that reached beyond the simply funny and into the realm of the suicide-inspiring...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Pudding Show Is a Recipe for Disgrace | 2/21/1996 | See Source »

...constant mutation: the actor playing Adam in one scene is Noah in the next, but no deep resemblance between these two characters is suggested. Instead, it just seems as if the oldest actor has been put in the oldest roles. These frequent changes, necessitated by the story line, create shallow characters...

Author: By Sebastian A. Bentkowski, | Title: And God Saw 'Genesis,' And It Was Not Good | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

Eventually the trees and their stalactites of dried resin fell, some of them ending up buried in soft sediments at the bottom of still and shallow bodies of water. There, over millions of years, the molecules of resin gradually amalgamated into long, durable chains, creating a material remarkably like plastic: airtight, watertight, chemically inert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREVER AMBER | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

However, on Monday nights, he is almost equally excited about the exploits of the beautifully shallow people on the Fox show. This is just one of the incongruities of David Weaver. He might seem to have a one-track mind, but there's a lot going...

Author: By Shaunna D. Jones, | Title: Weaving His Way to the Top | 1/24/1996 | See Source »

...Dole. In his determination not to be outflanked on the right wing, he has followed the guidance of his campaign advisers and portrayed himself as more conservative than he really is. The result is that he often appears craven and false, so while his support is wide, it is shallow and unenthusiastic. "The road ahead," he says, "won't be any picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL THE REAL BOB DOLE PLEASE STAND UP? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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