Word: shallowing
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...because Beckmann thought very hard about his own cultural heritage. His figures, with their polelike limbs and mouths like gashes, their awkward eloquence of gesture (long on pathos and aggression, short on grace), step right out of late medieval German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab of limewood not much thicker than a plank--with the result that everything stands...
...breed can be smug and shallow. The younger yuppies tend to look at education and the future in terms of the dollar: the "trade school" approach to learning. The idea of winning buzzes always in their minds. It is at them that Michelob Light aims its ad with the slogan: "Who said you can't have it all?" The yuppies are Ueberroth's natural constituency...
Among the other cast members. Meg Mackay is very strong as the "other" woman, cuttingly sarcastic and yet quite vulnerable, giving almost a heterosexual mirror image of Arnold. Christopher Stryker is wonderfully vapid and shallow as Alan, the pretty model who Arnold takes up with on the rebound; Jonathan Del Arco is impressive as the gay teenager Arnold seeks to adopt. Only Tom Stechschulte, as the confused bisexual Ed, doesn't quite measure up to the caliber of the other performances...
...most part, though, the campaign was a fairly shallow personality contest. It had a maddeningly evasive quality about it. It was as if television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
...best when he plays t he symbolic usurper: a furtive and shadowy man who captivates the lonely Mickey. But when he tries to demonstrate any-complexity, he talks out of the side of his mouth and mumbles his lines Barbara Williams' confusion is more appropriate, as she struggles with shallow lines and her growing interest in the interloper...