Word: vapid
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...free-thinking woman I was disgusted by an article straining to portray a developing discipline as a vapid political concession wrested from the establishment by shrews. And clever jibes at the new concentration--like writing women's thought as women's "thought"--fall short as cutting criticisms...
MANY, MANY YEARS ago, while Sally Field still flew over the bell towers of San Juan, Burt Reynolds appeared in a film called Deliverance and proved that he could act, as well as do a credible southern accent. Since then, however, he has frittered away his modest talents on vapid star vehicles and misbegotten "adventure" flicks like Smokey and the Bandit and the immortal Cannonball...
Some Kind of Wonderful rather too starkly exhibits Hughes' standard procedure. It has one of his attractive misfits, shy, sensitive Keith (Eric Stoltz) obsessively trying to steal popular, vapid Amanda (Lea Thompson) away from her rich, bullying boyfriend. Keith does not notice that his lifelong best buddy, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson, who is fine), has, for all her tomboyish ways, grown into a much more interesting and sexy girl than Amanda. Or that she truly loves him. That recognition is for the last minute, and it teaches Keith, Amanda and the whole school lessons in personal integrity...
...remarks betraying his utter contempt and distaste for the entire experience. Who was so cruel as to force this assignment upon him? Most perplexing, however, is his description of not Bye Bye Verdi, but the musical genre itself, as "an art form that is perhaps the most banal and vapid vehicle in the American cultural desert...
...whole thing just sets your head spinning. Clean-cut young Harvard lads decked out as well-endowed women, putting on a musical--an art form that is perhaps the most banal and vapid vehicle in the American cultural desert--for their well-dressed, well-mannered and well-off patrons and friends...