Word: vacuous
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...which are trying to alleviate their poverty, while at the same time supporting the government in El Salvador. Unfortunately, Weinberger's justification of our Central American policy based on five hundred thankful medical students was stifled by cat calls and chanting. The media did not focus on Weinberger's vacuous response but instead turned their camera on ketchup stained apparitions of death, and screaming Harvard students...
Fumiko Enchi wrote Masks 25 years ago, but only this year did Knopf publish an English translation. Enchi is described as one of Japan's most important women writers, Masks as her finest work. However, an unlikely plot, combined with a superficial theme and vacuous characterization, make that boast at best difficult to believe...
...against modern design. "Don't tear it down" more often than not means "Don't build it up!" The phenomenal increase in handicrafts is to a certain extent a reaction against the design of industrial products. The most successful feats of contemporary urban design are not the vacuous boulevards of "the city of tomorrow," like the Albany Mall, but teeming festival markets, like Boston's Faneuil Hall. Such high-tech architecture as the Beaubourg cultural center in Paris may make a nice place to visit, but who wants to live there...
...Pierre who gets eaten by a lion in another Sendak book. Rosie's brother is named Chicken Soup merely so that--in the evening's most outrageous nonsequitor--the final, curtain-dropping dance number can be set to the lyrics of Chicken Soup With Rice, arguably Sendak's most vacuous work...
...characters except for Charlie are one-dimensional stereotypic caricatures. Clayburgh plays a dippy finance. Although her portrayal of Josephine is appropriately vacuous, she fails to seize a firm grasp on her character. Nothing seen on the screen can explain Charlie's attraction to her. A little awkward on film, Clayburgh's acting techniques seem rough and not as refined as in her later performances...