Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What does all this mean? I would say to the League, if you have a point then state it. But don't try to deceive me with your beguiling language, specious arguments and vacuous phrases. Your spokesman has managed to write a stirring tirade against nothing, and in her zeal she has destroyed whatever honesty she started out with. More importantly, your group once again has justified Orwell's famous statement that political language is the defense of the indefensible. MichaelKorn...
...perfect method actor. He tries to make a personal contact with each of them through objects--commenting on their faces, their fingernails, anything to make them relate to him personally. Instead, they barrage him with the same stupid questions and cliches. He takes the offensive against the sweet vacuous interviewer from Chicago--"Jeezus, I'm going to have to look you up when I go to Chicago...
...cutesie, all-American blonde you project, glossy and slick, is vacuous to this American woman...
Wilson speaks only in generalities about the work of his task force. "The one thing I find impossible to understand is how anyone could justify the status quo. At present we're in the vacuous middle between strict requirements and none at all. The most useful thing to come out of these discussions is a serious debate over requirements," Wilson says, partially echoing Rosovsky. Wilson also believes, along with Rosovsky, that "there are certain areas more deserving than others of study," and that students should be introduced to them. "All courses are important but certain skills, the ability...
...doll (Italian Ballerina Leda Lojodice) materializes before him, and the two dance across the ice in a final pirouette to the game of life. Watching the scene unfold, Fellini's assistant director, Gerald Morin, smiled softly. "So this is what Fellini thinks it all comes down to-a vacuous man dancing with a mechanical doll. Only a middle-aged man growing cynical could make such a statement. How sad. How honest...