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...Taradise (E!). Take a skeevy, vacuous starlet (Tara Reid) and a skeevy, vacuous TV series (the Wild On travel-show franchise), put them together and what have you got? Thankfully -- one video train wreck and a quick cancellation later -- nothing, anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst TV of 2005 | 12/28/2005 | See Source »

...Craft” still sounds positively sculpted. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has taken their style in a different, colder direction. The album is the soundtrack to brushed aluminum lounges and suede benches: smooth, lush and sensual, but ultimately vacuous. “Automatique” is a dull electronic romp, and the opening track “World of Vibrations” is dragged down by a whining euro-pop hook. It seems like Gab and Xcel have forgotten exactly why they are making music, or rather, they’ve discovered...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: The Craft | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...kids out there would be wise to do the same. In Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead Books; 238 pages), the social critic and technologist (Mind Wide Open) makes a thought-provoking argument that today's allegedly vacuous media are, well, thought provoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Children, Eat Your Trash! | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...couple; yet in the final film, the two appear as siblings. It is a change that seems somewhat risky considering the decidedly different dynamics of lovers and those of geeky brother and protective sister. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for Eisenberg’s more vacuous performance...

Author: By Morgan Grice, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eisenberg Hopes Career Not 'Cursed' By Film | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...just say that causal relationships go out the window, where they will certainly find the company of reason and Dakota Fanning’s dignity. Ultimately, “THE PART OF THE MOVIE THAT COMES AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE” proves to be just as vacuous and phony as the opening...

Author: By Tony A. Onah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hide and Seek Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

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