Word: vapid
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Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...
Short, rotund Professor Paul Joseph Sachs, a present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (Gyorgy Sandor and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). A workmanlike reading of a vapid but pleasant score. Performance: good...
...which took a strong stand on the tariff. As for taking a weak stand on the tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political cartoons have to be simple, and the only sure way to be simple, without also being vapid, is to be very firm in your convictions. Webster calls himself a Mugwump, but the mug and wump usually lean over the conservative side of the fence, as is perhaps natural in a man who spent his most formative years, very happily, in much the sort of pre-industrial American...
Most spot commercials are either obnoxious or vapid. Chiquita Banana, sung to a catchy, Calypso-style tune, is so different that listeners actually like it. Last week, after more than eight months on the air, it had become the undisputed No. i on the jingle-jangle hit parade. Its composers, Garth Montgomery and Len Mackenzie (of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), not unmindful of the famed banana smash of the early 1920s, decided to doll up their lyrics, and give them a try as a popular song...