Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, there are bad moments. One dance that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...
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...