Word: vapidly
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...vapid language of technocracy has even co-opted the issues that formerly appealed to idealism, so that these days one can unironically speak of Harvard's "race relations infrastructure." One assumes that the Freedom Riders might have received some informal training (about how not to get beat up or killed) before setting out; how they might have benefitted from technical instruction from "Conflict Management...
Actresses with a wide range like Polley's thrive at Sundance because many movies there take risks with compelling, quirky characters. Where Hollywood favors vapid females whose greatest apotheosis is a kiss, indies prefer complex women who can also kick butt. "Independent films almost have a province when it comes to portraying strong women," says festival programming chief Geoffrey Gilmore. "They're not just the archetypal roles of the girlfriend, the wife or even the women who get together to cry. Actresses get to play the kind of fully fleshed-out characters who just aren't in most studio scripts...
...character who does not know who he is not is played by an actor who does know how to play him (Am I Woody? Am I not?). Allen's allegory about how tasteless we have become with our obsession with a syndicated world is, in its own way, a vapid world, inhabited by characters who are as silly...
Dartboard has stood by and let many an Undergraduate Council debate rage this week, much to our own amusement. Yet in the course of vapid jousting over perennial "pressing student concerns," we have become increasingly alarmed at another aspect of the elections. Sadly, it was not the content of these debates that has led us to speak out, nor a particular allegiance to any of the candidates...
...Pupil would seem to be a thriller that hovers somewhere between tolerable and entertaining. Scenes in the style of Stephen King, normally complex and intriguing, are here sickening. The ethics of making Dussander (a former SS officer) the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. This said, Ian McKellan may be given credit for giving the masterful performance one expects of him. Todd Renfro's acting (as the boy who discovers Dussander) is generally bland and flat, more appropriate to a sitcom, or an after-school special, than the thriller that...