Word: vapidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fallon becomes a possible vice presidential candidate. But he's unqualified and vapid and young and his main attribute is his good looks. Sound familiar? The Bush/Quayle campaign quickly denounced the series. They managed to get the network to drop the "from today's headlines" tag, and a network affiliate in Indiana dropped the show...
...without the heft to handle the job. There were anonymous gibes: "Quayle is Bush Lite." His academic record became an issue; as even Quayle admits, "I was not a very good student." The Wall Street Journal quoted one of his college professors as saying, "He was as vapid a student as I can ever recall...
...season's main song-and-dance items, Ziegfeld and Winnie, are biographies with vapid books and recycled songs. The portrait of Showman Flo is slack and bland, the glimpse of Churchill in wartime likely to appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more...
...other unsavory deeds, without reference to those tax dollars collected specifically from American companies doing business in South Africa. Therefore, American companies who pay millions in taxes to the South African government in taxes each year need not think of themselves as "supporting" the regime. This "argument" is so vapid even the Corporation hasn't used it yet (as far as I know...
...good measure, the essay branded Runcie an "elitist liberal" who uses his influence to pack the hierarchy and bureaucracy with cronies and woolly- minded leftists. Increasingly, charged Crockford's, the Church of England is run by theologically vapid leaders who follow "what they think is the wish of the majority of the moment" and whose "moderately Catholic style . . . is not taken to the point of having firm principles." Meanwhile, declared the 16-page piece, few appointments go to biblical conservatives in the Evangelical faction or to liturgical and doctrinal traditionalists in the Anglo-Catholic wing, even though the two groups...