Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tries to give the letter a universal appeal, and, in so doing, manages to alienate almost everyone who could conceivably read it. He begins by offering an apologia for the use of dirty words by undergraduates which will surely strike all but the most puritanical alumni as gratuitously vapid. He follows with an account of the Alex Rackley slaying which somehow manages to make everyone look guilty, and spends the rest of the book explaining the conduct of undergraduates...
...Mason and have been a Boy Scout. I do not wander aimlessly about slack-jawed with a vapid grin on my face. I, and I am convinced many Americans, happen to believe that man, in common with other members of the animal kingdom, is faced with a continual struggle to stay alive...
...than ever. Redford is one of the few actors who can look gaudy wearing nothing but blue jeans. But both characters have infantile psyches; they seem as incapable of sorrow as of happiness. The aimless script is even more anesthetized. Its lame jokes are articulated by stunted heroes and vapid chicks: the halt leading the bland. Though its budget appears generous, the film's editing is cut-rate; scenes end in mid-sentence and time is perpetually out of joint...
...director has come to the silver screen, which he bloodies considerably, from television commercials. He claims he likes to do commercials because everything happens quickly and providing him with a good chance for split images, slow-motion, and whatever else comes from the manual. The film is not completely vapid. The bust at the end is in part a frightening, sickening exercise in Hollywood gore, but is enacted in the most immediate terms possible. There is little dialogue here, the camera keeps to itself, and the sheer terror of cops battling students inevitably leaves the audience shaken, even if they...
...going to let the discussion of curriculum reform degenerate into a vapid debate on Gen Ed VS. concentration requirements? Will the reform consist of a little reshuffling within the faculty? Will students accept the ground rules for discussion laid down by the Dean (i.e., talk reform according to the Dean's proscribed curriculum...