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...have been skeptical about the results. "The film has been made for audiences ranging from the Spanish coast to the Urals, passing through the Acropolis," wrote La Croix. "The result is a flat dialogue, jokes which are barely funny and a sluggish pace." Le Monde described it as a "vacuous gigantic stewpot," L'Express called it "French cinema's first bling-bling film," while Libération said it was a "tragic potion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Asterix Conquer Europe? | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...made by Pixar, was the animation winner. Schnabel was named Best Director, and Joel and Ethan Coen got the Screenplay nod for No Country for Old Men. Somehow, NBC -whose president Jeff Zucker has been a belligerent voice against the striking writers - didn't find time in its vacuous hour-long show to mention the writing award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Globes — Who Cares? | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...This presidential campaign is already too long, and these vacuous debates serve as repeated reminders that we still have a lot of folly to endure. At this point, we know the basics, the talking points, the boats. Now, all that’s left for the candidates to do is bash Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY)—and even that’s getting...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: Enough Already! | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...moral majority seems content to cite a “changing global climate,” violate their entire value system and hope no one takes notice. And there appears to be no evident limit to how total this betrayal could potentially become. Every trend suggests that were the vacuous former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney to survive the Republican primary, he would win not a little support from the same people who four years ago were condemning entire homosexuals, pro-choice liberals, and the city of New Orleans to hell: all this in spite of the fact that...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: For Thirty Pieces of Silver | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...teen-parent conflict. In most of the world, teens aren't trying to "break away" from adults; they're trying to become adults. There is something utterly broken about our system! We've completely lost sight of the abilities of our young people and trapped them in the utterly vacuous world of "teen culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debate: Are Teens in Turmoil? | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

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