Word: substanceless
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...WHOLE REASON the question keeps coming up is vague, substanceless statements just like that. Of course, Radcliffe is a distinguished educational institution with a unique partnership with Harvard. Who ever said it wasn't? What people are really asking for is a clearer definition of that "unique" partnership, and that is precisely what the Radcliffe administration keeps failing to provide...
...slightest comparison between the two shows. "I don't think there was anything similar at all except that they were both within an hour context and they were both on television," he says. "If [the three I saw] were representative of the other nine, they were soft, People magazine, substanceless fluff," says Kalb. Moreover, Kalb points out that despite Frost's higher budget and more explosive style, "Candidates '88" received more coverage in the media. Clearly, even an academic likes to keep track of his headlines...
...free speech is not a substanceless concept that we mouth whenever we want to prove that, yes, we really are democrats with a small "d." Free speech is the last defense of the just, for it is always the less popular, less acceptable opinion that gets quashed when freedom of expression is restricted...
With its whimsical story line, delightful if substanceless lyrics, and perfect comic mastery, it all seems familiar enough, but even the most devoted Porter afficianados probably will have trouble remembering You Never Know, Conceived by Porter as an intimate "chamber musical" with a small cast and none of the painstakingly choreographed routines so typical of commercialized Broadway, then as now, You Never Know might easily have remained forever unknown. When a debilitating horseback riding accident in 1937 left both of Portar's legs forever crippled, the Shuberts took the production into their own hands. Under their direction, "You Never Know...
...Still, the musical numbers are the strong points of the show. Matt and Luisa's closing duet, staged with admirable restraint, nearly redeems the dialogue that precedes it--and it would completely if Schmidt and Jones didn't feel obligated to insert El Gallo at the end with another substanceless speech...