Word: vapid
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...need only be added that at one point Pidgeon is forced to slap, in the manner of General Patton, a malingering crew member played by Frankie Avalon, a vapid juvenile customarily billed as a singer. In view of the song Avalon emits while the credits are being shown, Pidgeon clearly shirked his duty. Patton would have fed the squirt to the squid...
...light blue background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
...enjoy following their own lines of thought and study, who have faith (sometimes exaggerated) in their powers of self-education; who, in short, believe that they will learn best what they want to learn. In its first sense (a gay freedom within academics), abandon means staying away from vapid lectures, auditing widely, and mostly, haunting the libraries and bookstores, reading broadly and selectively, making up personal bibliographies. In its second sense (pursuing extracurricular activities), academic abandon suggests the development of rigorous, but non-academic styles of education. In every college activity there are loafers, second-raters, but also the young...
Dimitri Villard as Neoptolemus brought little insight and meager stage presence to a demanding part. Neoptolemus, an honest, forthright youth, is forced by Odysseus into a double reversal of character. In order to fool. Philoctetes, he must pretend to be naive, that is, he must "play" himself. Villard's vapid interpretation excluded all this complexity. Thus, when the time came for him to break down and tell all to Philoctetes, he had not prepared the audience with any previous dramatic tension. His moment fizzled...
Bringing Up Buddy (CBS) unleashes cascades of canned laughter that are so at variance with the vapid comedy on -the screen that the ear automatically dials out the sound in defense of sanity. The story involves boyish Buddy, a rising young executive (Frank Aletter), entrapped in the fuddled care of two maiden aunts (Doro Merande and Enid Markey) who are so naive and troublesome that they should be put out of harm's way before the series gets much older. Script credit goes to one George Tibbies, who may add a new word to show-business lingo. Entertainments...