Word: shallowness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atypically peaceful scene for those dino-eat-dino days. Amid the shallow streams of a broad floodplain, scores of huge, grazing female dinosaurs were making their nests and hovering near their eggs, as their predecessors had doubtless done for ages untold. But their tranquillity was suddenly disturbed. Out of nowhere came a flood of mud and silt, scattering the lumbering beasts and burying their progeny. The lively dinosaur nursery was lost forever...
...there is a fault to the production, it isthat it had to end--the way it did. Into thesecond act, the momentum so well built up in thefirst begins to wind down. The "Hollywood ending,"with its hurried hodge-podge, shallow staging andgarish coloring, undoes the sophisticatedsubtleties which made the rest of the show sorich. What had promised to be a scorching andsultry tale of thwarted amour and twisted ambitioncatches itself in a burlesque conclusion...
...religion he so belittles, he'd see how Christians can reject some of the harshness of the Old Testament and still refuse to yield on this issue of gay "rights." The sanctity of marriage is not something Christians can toss aside in an effort to conform to a shallow, PC understanding of Christian love and tolerance. BRONWEN C. MCSHEA...
Alleging that "schools have become instruments of social engineering" which force "shallow irony on young people who are full of passion," she urged listeners to rediscover the great works of art and history for themselves...
...policies remain sound," says John Snow, chairman and CEO of transport giant CSX Corp., echoing the sentiments of many of his peers. "There is not a huge stock of inventories to work off. We've gone to a just-in-time type of economy. A quarter or two of shallow recession or reduced growth is all I see, and when that is finished, I think you will see that the rest of the world is starting to recover." Says Atlantic Richfield chairman and CEO Michael Bowlin: "You can create scenarios that go either way. You can create scenarios where Asia...