Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without music, Enter Laughing is just too big a matzoh ball to swallow. Not that a score was ever written for the show, but one might forgive the vacuous book if the oi-so-stock Jewish jokes were textured frequently with a clever little song. After all, I Can Get It For You Wholesale--with an equally trite situation--overcame its basic obnoxiousness with show stoppers like "Miss Marmelstein." Enter Laughing, however, doesn't even...
Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...
...getting ready to leave. Both the Post and the Times are Republican papers. But Times Publisher Chandler has promised Conrad the same latitude that he enjoyed in Denver, where, despite occasional remonstrances from Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt, Conrad persisted in depicting former President Eisenhower as progressively senile and slightly vacuous...
What is doubly depressing is that these standards are applied with so little competence and that the Committee's facts are poor, its logic faulty and its recommendations are largely vacuous...
...environments. It has been able, at long last, to supersede the Hollywood glamorization of life. Let us hope also that your fine cover story [Sept. 20] will stimulate a new interest in the cinema, not only for its own sake but as an alternative to the slick, stifling and vacuous "entertainment" that constitutes so much of television's program offerings...