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Irving clearly intends an affirmative answer to this question, although the evidence he offers on this point is far from conclusive. Quite late in the novel he is still calling his hero "vapid" and "eternally insipid," judgments that seem, unfortunately, pretty close to the mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sound Of One Hand Clapping | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...slightest hint that these people's lives (and those of their children) are anything but fodder for tabloid speculation and ridicule. You made fun of the headlines the breakup has produced in other publications, but you had no right to assume superiority when your own reporting was so vapid, meanspirited and soulless. ROBERT E. RYDER Savannah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...South Florida. She's only half right. They have politics fatigue. The campaign seems like an insufferably long extension of the Clinton scandal and the partisan bickering that followed. And now, after a year of campaigning that felt like 10, Floridians are daily subjected to an assault of vapid, 30-second TV spots that seem designed to lower the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Is It Over Yet? | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...remarked that Jessica Simpson's chin would prevent her from being a star, but now I realize that she's going nowhere as long as she keeps logging entries into that damn diary on her official website. You have to read it all the way through to appreciate how vapid this Britney-wannabe actually is (she even gushes about a starstruck encounter with-gag-Celine Dion), but here's a sample to tide you over: "Nick [Lachey, from 98 Degrees] was a little upset because I encouraged him to get his hair cut and they really cut it short...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...South Florida. She's only half right. They have politics fatigue. The campaign seems like an insufferably long extension of the Clinton scandal and the partisan bickering that followed. And now, after a year of campaigning that felt like 10, Floridians are subjected to a daily assault of vapid 30-second TV spots that seem designed to lower the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Fatigue May Get the Most Votes | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

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