Word: vacuous
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...orchestrates them scrupulously, so that the film is the very definition of flawless ensemble playing. Kari Sylwan, the only one of the quar tet unfamiliar from previous Bergman films, gives Anna a strange, almost mys tical sense of strength. Liv Ullmann's Maria is that rare creation, a vacuous creature of substance. This seeming paradox is one excellent measure of Berg man's talent, and Miss Ullmann...
...banter of his plays. The plot, taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...
...Olivetti Corp., which is running ads that infuriate feminists. The ads promote "brainy" typewriters that are supposed to eliminate some typing errors made by dippy-looking secretaries, who presumably lack the brains to avoid them in the first place. In the TV commercial, the secretary is shown as a vacuous sex kitten who finds that she can attract men by becoming "an Olivetti girl...
...Jago, it seems is absolutely incorrigible. He most certainly is incapable of reading, as otherwise he would have seen that my letter did not obscure any issue. It only rendered his reply pointless and rather vacuous. For now he is merely reduced to a strident babbling and deliberate misrepresentation. I wonder which sentence I wrote could have sustained Mr. Jago's view that "he has seen the truth and the light." J's reasoning is truly astonishing. We are now to understand that the veracity of Mr. Gordon's views on China derives from the bitter experience of his having...
...nauseating mixture of vacuous sociological theories," wrote the Richmond Times-Dispatch...