Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women, along with the rest of the case, imbue their roles with an energetic magnetism that makes us want to know everything that has brought them to this reunion. These performances not only crane stereotypic responses to Dennis, Cher, and Black but reveal amazing depth--overcoming the possibility for shallow interpretations from the seeming narrowness of the plot...
...crisis Charlie undergoes during the two days preceding his marriage consumes most of the shallow plot, with all the silly details involved in the wedding's preparations forming a backdrop. Although the plot is filled with strings of funny episodes, no single theme unites the movie. Instead, The Wedding Party is a series of quickly paced, unrelated vignettes...
...Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire. He regards Reagan's National Security Adviser, William Clark, as "Living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire's remark is living proof that when it comes to malice toward one another, top conservatives are in a class by themselves...
...case has been controversial from the day three nuns and a Roman Catholic lay worker were found sexually abused, shot, and buried in a shallow grave about 30 miles southeast of San Salvador. After months of stonewalling by Salvadoran authorities, the five suspects were finally taken into custody in May 1981, but the wheels of justice creaked slowly and Washington grew increasingly impatient. Last year Congress passed legislation requiring the Administration to justify its requests for military and economic aid to El Salvador by certifying every six months that the country is improving its human rights record. In July, Congress...
King wrote it immediately upon the completion of one of his later novels, The Dead Zone. But in "Rita Hayworth," his sense of the macabre is notably absent. The story suffers: the style is stilled, the mood is tense, the characters shallow, and the ultimate effect is forced. "Rita Hayworth and Shasta Redemption" is not Stephen King...