Word: shallowing
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...Hoop Dreams," is the source of its popularity. But this film cannot just be deemed a "basketball movie". Grouping it in a lump with "White Men Can't Jump" would be as much of a travesty as categorizing the engrossing documentary "Paris Is Burning" with the much more shallow "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." More than a basketball movie, "Hoop Dreams" asks questions about social conditions that require our immediate attention. By exploring one subject so intensively, the film manages to transcend itself and delves into issues ranging from domestic violence to drug dealing to affirmative action...
...Stetson Jr., dean of admissions at U.Penn, told the Dartmouth student newspaper that the common application is "a shallow way of reaching people" who do not want to complete multiple forms...
After intermission, Yoo prefaced the Zwilich by a brief and humorous lecture, citing passages with the aid of the orchestra. The 1984 work rang a bit shallow, however; its influences carefully trace the development of music in the first half of this century and extinguish any hope of originality...
...Estonia is now lying in water shallow enough to be reached by divers and perhaps by salvaging equipment. Maritime experts and the ferry's owners agree that raising it would be technically difficult. And they acknowledge that it would be dangerous work for the divers to bring bodies to the surface. For the hundreds who perished inside it, the Estonia has become a tomb...
...Dartmouth's academic rating plunges into the teens, Stanford's alumni become increasingly dissatisfied, and the pockets of former Columbia Lions grow shallow, it is comforting to still see John Harvard sitting astride the narrow data like a colossus...