Word: vapid
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...black man for being black, he hates your guts for being a bigot. And if you needle him long enough, he's liable to go out of his mind--just as you would. It is not a very fancy message, and it doesn't make for a pleasant, vapid evening at the movies. It is grim and chilling like the problem it poses, and it is just as true as the little green apples God is supposed to have made...
...River (Howard Hawks-United Artists). When people discuss the real art ists in picturemaking, they seldom get around to mentioning Howard Hawks. Yet Hawks is one of the most individual and independent directors in the business. Even when he has a vapid chore to do, he gives it character; when a picture really interests him, he gives it enough character to blast you out of your seat. Red River, which Hawks produced and directed, clearly interested him a lot. It is a rattling good outdoor adventure movie...
...SONG OF LOVE: From ____'s great A-Minor Concerto was wrung a vapid tune, timed for the forthcoming movie on the composer's life...
...Does not the very extravagance of our devotion prove that we live in a religiously vapid age, in which even Christians fail to penetrate to the more ultimate issues of life...
Possessed. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin and flashes of good moviemaking do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...