Word: shamelessness
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...prime time to lay out his vision in front of a packed joint session of Congress and assorted national heroes; Dole appeared for 10 minutes in an empty office with a TelePrompTer and snarled through a performance that Rush Limbaugh called "lackluster," and others much worse. Clinton was buoyant, shameless, cleverly conciliatory, as he proclaimed the end of Big Government, attacked sleazy Hollywood profiteers, extolled the virtues of the family and a balanced budget. Clinton's speech was so Republican in form and function that Dole could have just welcomed him aboard the G.O.P., joked that House minority leader Dick...
Hodgkin's paintings are not about ideas. They are feelings declared in color--feelings triggered by places (Venice, Naples, Morocco, India, or rooms in London) or by memories of encounters (sociable or sexual), all embedded in pigment of quite shameless lushness. They are intelligent not in the way argument can be but in the way painting is--though, in most cutting-edge art, actually...
...Senate is a place where it is considered bad form for members to trash one another (except anonymously), but the word one hears most often when seeking an assessment of Gramm is shameless. Everyone, it seems, is familiar with the definition of "Grammstand:" to take undeserved credit for matters you opposed in the hope no one will notice...
...survive, whether it can extend its grace to the tormented Zimans and at the same time triumph over the fateful malignity of the relentless cop, remains the central question, for Lelouch as for Hugo. But this is not, finally, a movie that encourages such abstract considerations. It is all shameless pace and jostle, a compendium of evil (war, suicide, poverty, injustice, exploitation) that yet asks us to believe that common decency (and a strong back) can eventually triumph over it. Maybe so, maybe not. But how pretty it is to believe it may. And how pleasurable...
...shameless rip-off of "Priscilla," the story of two drag queens and a transsexual on a road trip through the Australian outback in fantabulous togs, "To Wong Foo" is the story of three drag queens on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles in lackluster ensembles. In "Priscilla," they are on their way to put on a drag show at a hotel in the middle of nowhere; in To Wong Foo, they are going to compete in a national drag queen pageant in L.A. "Priscilla" had a matron, a misanthrope and a young upstart. What a shock...