Word: sophomoricism
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All this information about this former president ought to be intriguing and provocative. But Secret Honor: Nixon's Last Tape is baffling and boring; a self-indulgent, sophomoric parody of a political figure who was actually very complex. The play's concept is amusing, but its unstructured, hour-and-40...
The film's failure to transcend conventional stereotype is as cumbersome as its reliance on stock gags and "cute" statements. Director Jordan's idea of humor--falling brooms and burning toast--is admittedly a sign of domestic chaos, but certainly an insufficient ploy to keep the audience in hysterics. Similarly...
I enjoy tearing down a goalpost as much as the next guy, and remember fondly the dismantling and the sinking in the Charles of the open end uprights at last year's Game. So, as the seconds ticked off late in the fourth quarter. I made my way down the...
The movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student...
Anderson was quoted in one Washington journal after reading Diary as saying Bisnow was harboring a "sophomoric and romanticized" view about the campaign's transition from "Doonesbury days" to a national campaign effort.