Word: vacuously
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...would not accept the award if Wick became the Rotary head. Miller, who has no alternative funding and is planning to study in England, invited other Harvard Rotary winners to join her in her protest, but apparently none contacted her. Her action stands in contrast to the morally vacuous behavior of the Rotary leadership...
...tragedy. When the pageant is over, and the fradulent victor is announced, we are asked to pity first the loser (for there most certainly are losers, the M.C.'s rationalizations notwithstanding) and then the winner, who must pay the price of her triumph by accepting the vacuous premises of American life...
Unfortunately, the shallowness lurking behind "Golden Years" and "Stay" finally catches up with Bowie on the last cut, "Wild As The Wind," which has to be one of the most vacuous numbers he has ever penned. Even Bowie's new idol, Frank Sinatra, might think twice before crooning, "For we're creatures of the wind/Wild as the wind? I hear the sound of mandolins..." Let's pray it doesn't become his swan song...
...film goes most disastrously wrong when it tries to turn slice-of-life realism into full-scale melodrama. At first it is interesting, and funny, when Travis becomes obsessed with a cool socialite (Cybill Shepherd) who is a campaign worker for a too slick, too vacuous presidential candidate. Their relationship begins with his following her around at a distance, proceeds to his awkward efforts to date her, ends when he takes her to a skin flick. It makes a nice little essay in the confusions of cross-cultural courtship. However, Travis' failure as presented is more farcical than tragic...
Sure Marisa Berenson has a pretty face, but why run her as an "overbred, vacuous, giggly and lazy" cover subject [Dec. 15] when the true fanfare belongs to Stanley Kubrick, the most innovative person to touch motion pictures since Thomas A. Edison...