Word: vapid
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...editors do seem to understand the difference between the vivid humor present in such comics as "Life in Hell" and "Zippy" and the vapid four-panel daily strips that dominate the commercial comics business. But the editors' efforts would have been more informative if they had provided a greater context in which the non-junkie might understand current comics...
...would also have liked to see a Pudding show that bucked the recent trend toward vapid sexual humor and returned to the good old days when the productions were satire as well as burlesque...
Exceeding the expectations of even the most hardened critics of the independent right-wing weekly, the Review published a Yom Kippur issue with this frightening quotation in place of their usual vapid front page "credo": "I believe today I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work," a repulsive little epigram lifted directly from Hitler's Mein Kampf...
...commonly acknowledged truth that horror films are not well made. Usually they feature screams for dialogue, vapid female victims for characters, ketchup and water for blood. Directors replace psychological complexity with gore, and the paying audience experiences more disgust than fear...
Kaiser's portrayal of Jane Eyrehead had the potential to be insufferably annoying (Kaiser gives new meaning to the word "vapid"--it is unbelieveable that he can keep that expression on his face for the whole two-plus hours). But he turns out to be funny and a very good singer, as shown in his duet with Harley, "Leather and Lace...