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...Wainwright is searching too hard for a list of things to eat for breakfast if he has to separate “your folks” and “your kids.” In a broader sense, the childlike fun of this song is pestering, even vapid, whether or not it is intentional...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rufus Wainwright | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...sexy, although that is unexpected and slightly hard to process. (Only four years have passed since she was Fern in Charlotte's Web.) It's that she suggests an inner life for Currie that is both enigmatic and completely sympathetic. She underplays with mastery, revealing Currie as vapid, malleable, ordinary and lost, but at the same time riveting on- and offstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Runaways: Band of Sisters | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...additions to the plot prove unnecessary, such as the musical number entitled “The Morning Report,” which is a sunny but vapid tune led by Zazu that appears to have been added solely for the enjoyment of the under-6 crowd, as it proves content-less and only weakly amusing. And at a total run time of two hours and 45 minutes, plenty of opportunities for cutting superfluous scenes exist...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Lion King' Tour Reigns Supreme | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...four-point introduction plays a pivotal role in the expansion of Harvard students’ horizons. Though some may criticize this technique as vapid and impersonal, the bottom line is that these two aspects of the introduction may be the keys to its success. It is the generic nature of this greeting that helps build new friendships—relationships that may grow into lifelong companionships...

Author: By John W. He | Title: Four Talking Points to Friendship | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Suffered two incredibly unprofitable rounds of poker in the name of love in which vapid Nate was of no help...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Recap: "Enough About Eve" and Vanessa too, please! | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

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