Word: vapidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prettiface has more devious plans in mind, however. Behind her vapid facade and over-stuffed brassiere lurks a scheming mind and evil intentions. She soon confesses to her grumpy (but hilarious) Jester Gigolo (John Berman) that she actually killed her sister so she could rule the kingdom...
...acme of vapid pretension is reached by the former art dealer Klaus Kertess, who thinks Basquiat's drug addiction was in some large way socially therapeutic. "Heroin," Kertess opines, "seems to have played some role in the formation of the discontinuous maps of mental states that are his paintings and drawings. Heroin seems to have helped him fuse his line with his nerve endings as they responded to, parodied and sought to heal a disturbed culture...
...down at the fairgrounds. This year the Republicans are pushing that tradition to new limits by turning Dan Quayle into a virtual Stealth Vice President. There are not even any pictures of him on the Bush-Quayle re- election poster, presumably out of fear that the Vice President's vapid visage will repel swing voters. Says a senior G.O.P. adviser: "You won't see Bush even with a cutout of Quayle." This strategist admits the image of Clinton and Gore working so closely in tandem "points up the weaknesses Quayle brings...
...struggle, his films say, of man with himself. Women are the objects, the prizes, the threat. Perhaps this is why he has often portrayed them as voracious or vapid, why a hint of misogyny courses through his oeuvre. Allen's first wife brought a $1 million suit charging Allen with "holding her up to scorn and ridicule" after finding herself, as French critic Robert Benayoun writes in a sympathetic biography of Allen, "the source of numerous stories ((that)) turned her private life into a national joke." Keaton and Farrow, his two longtime romantic companions and frequent co-stars, often played...
...aspect of the Pucker Safrai Exhibit is a painting by Picasso. "Femme au Fauteuil," painted in 1948, reflects the shell-shocking influence of the Second World War. It depicts a woman in two-dimensional, almost paralyzed, form. Her stare is blank, and she appears so confused that it appears vapid...