Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avedon believes that "all the great models are exceptions to the rule. Twiggy was too small, Parker too tall, Veruschka too eccentric, Jean Shrimpton too vacuous. Lauren is too ordinary." Vogue Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella says: "Year after year she gets better looking. It's the mood of the girl that comes through. She is a direct, strong, intelligent, straight woman. There's nothing chichi...
...find out how he lives or even where he lives. Once in a while, he'll slap his girl Billie around but this doesn't seem to fit in with Dillinger's character, and because Billie takes it so obligingly we are not moved. Billie is a vacuous sex-object. Without literal or figurative dimensions, she is unlike the tough-bitch gun molls of the '30s and '40s. In White Heat, Cody Jarret's wife cheats on him, lies to him, and fears him. She is real. In one scene of Dillinger, Billie goes so far as to slap...
...music room because he claimed he lost his inspiration by the time he got there. I've heard he since converted to Buddhism, more lately to record-making and Capitalism. With their devotion these people might find something meaningful in Godspell. For the rest of us it's vacuous...
...give nothing but an extended quotation from the text. The book introduces itself. But the immediate geographic vibration arises from the photographs interspersed--black and white pictures of Des Moines, Iowa; flat images of a ghost-town desolation, aching vistas of an earthiness that turned out drab and vacuous...
...delving into the detailed environmental, aesthetic, and technical aspects of the complex Storm King proposal. It also shelters the shallow thinking which assumes that problems which fall on the University's doorstep will disappear if they are simply ignored. The assumption is as dangerous as it is vacuous...