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...concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...
Finally, no sampling of cookbooks would be complete without one of the genre's inevitable celebrity offerings. A typically vacuous entry this season is The Jill St. John Cookbook (Random House; 259 pages; $19.95), a bit of fluff that begins with the actress's expression of gratitude to Eastman Kodak for providing film and processing. "Thanks, Kodak!" she says, and well she might, for the collection of glistening photographs, mostly of the monthly food columnist herself, are this volume's main, albeit limited, attraction...
Writer-director Lowenstein uses glossy images and clever camera angles to give the movie a slick, high-tech look in the same vacuous MTV style of his INXS videos. The movie looks great, but is so hopelessly vapid that it hardly matters. This emptiness is due to Lowenstein's complete neglect of some of the niceties of movie-making--plot and character...
...Rutger is also different from the Time Magazine Special Advertising Supplement Achievement Awards in that mindless success-obsessed automatons are not encouraged to submit their absurdly padded resumes in order to reap yet more vacuous praise for their completely worthless achievements, which are generally motivated by hopeless insecurity. Also, no money will be awarded...
...play nearly crosses the line. Nonfeminist women are depicted as vacuous trifles and virtually every man is an evil, swaggering oppressor--"Let's go back to my place and struggle over sexism" leers one of the predatory "male feminists," who sees the movement as a potentially fruitful pick-up ground. The issue of abortion is resolved neatly with one utterance from a player...