Word: vapidly
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...seen fit to honor International Women's Year with a lengthy cover story about "The New Beauties," [June 16] a group of young women whose only discernible asset is a pretty face. Now how about giving equal space to "The New Handsomes," about the equally vapid, pea-brained, nonsense-spouting but gorgeous young men of the world? I can hardly wait...
David Muggeridge is sufficiently vapid as Rick the younger son, whose mind crawls along the ground like a snake. However, Seth Rolbein, as the priest who substitutes pseudo-scientific racism for Christianity is no more effective than the character he portrays...
...mountains in the face of her family's adamant disapproval. The sanitorium itself is a welfare state Magic Mountain, set in Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden of the Finzi Contins such a visually attractive but intellectually vapid film Snow capped mountains, exquisitely dressed women, luxurious but tasteful architecture and rustic charm proclaim heavyhandedly that we have entered another world totally alien to Clara's seedy three room tenement and grimy factory. Here Clara has everything she has been denied all her life, a room of her own, time to herself...
WHEN DAISY MILLER came out last Summer, there was some question whether Cybill Shepherd had magnificently captured the dull vapid chattering character of Daisy, of whether she was just a bad actress. Peter Bogdanovich has evidently decided to set the record straight for in his new movie At Long Last Love, he gives ample evidence that Shepherd is a very bad actress in deed...
...three essays they write. Says Jesse Hartley, Houston's director of freshman English: "Students can't carry through an idea in writing; they have no idea what a paragraph is; they are unable to string details together in a logical sequence. They're just sort of vapid...