Word: vacuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over this upsurge of freedom are some impolitic questions about America's own role in fostering free elections abroad. Democracy is indisputably good for the world, but are U.S.-style campaign techniques necessarily good for democracy? Should Americans feel elated if election campaigns from Manila to Moscow become as vacuous as the contest between George Bush and Michael Dukakis...
...surprise that, after a close encounter with a garden rake, Susan develops hallucinations of grandeur. In her imaginary world, her garden is five times bigger and her driveway is ten miles long. Her fantasy husband, Andy, does the cooking, and, "incidentally, loves (her) more than words can say." Her vacuous daughter is talented and beautiful, and appreciates her mother (now a noted author) as Rick never did. Her brother is affable and protective, generously offering his services to dispose of the unappreciative Gerald...
When it came time to pick a running mate, Bush chose a young, vacuous senator, whose only qualification seems to be his unerring toeing of the reactionary line. Born to enormous wealth and helped by nepotism every step of the way, Senator Dan Quayle personifies what has come to be known as the Me Generation...
...city can be seen from millions of different angles, and for each perspective there exists a separate city. This is a semi-philosophical, tending towards vacuous, if not outright moronic, and certainly not original, idea--which is actually true...
...Quayle is not as vacuous as his critics and some of his odder statements ("I'm not a yuppie, I'm a Senator") suggest. He is knowledgeable about weapons systems and deserves praise for his work on the Job Training Partnership Act. His problem is that he has not figured out his limitations or how to overcome them, a process he is now conducting in the glare of the campaign. He is sunnily self-confident and accustomed to the leeway accorded good-looking, engaging men. At the G.O.P. convention, when Republicans were debating whether to dump him from the ticket...