Word: vapid
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...Mason and have been a Boy Scout. I do not wander aimlessly about slack-jawed with a vapid grin on my face. I, and I am convinced many Americans, happen to believe that man, in common with other members of the animal kingdom, is faced with a continual struggle to stay alive...
...director has come to the silver screen, which he bloodies considerably, from television commercials. He claims he likes to do commercials because everything happens quickly and providing him with a good chance for split images, slow-motion, and whatever else comes from the manual. The film is not completely vapid. The bust at the end is in part a frightening, sickening exercise in Hollywood gore, but is enacted in the most immediate terms possible. There is little dialogue here, the camera keeps to itself, and the sheer terror of cops battling students inevitably leaves the audience shaken, even if they...
...going to let the discussion of curriculum reform degenerate into a vapid debate on Gen Ed VS. concentration requirements? Will the reform consist of a little reshuffling within the faculty? Will students accept the ground rules for discussion laid down by the Dean (i.e., talk reform according to the Dean's proscribed curriculum...
...Jonathan Winters, as General Billy Joe Hallson, secondhand mattress salesman and head of the San Antonio unit of the Texas National Guard, has a couple of good stumblebum comic moments, as does Kenneth Mars playing a Texas Minuteman. But even they can do nothing about the witless dialogue and vapid plotting, which lace the comic moments in Viva Max with all the kick of day-old cerveza...
...Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness of her untroubled expression or the richly brocaded gowns and hierarchic formality of the aristocratic spectators...