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...images are vibrant, colorful, and beautifully shot. Videos like this remind us why pop divas usually leave the soul-baring to singer-songwriters. With no flashing lights and erotic whispering to distract us, we are forced to face the obvious truth that Christina & Co. are musically uninteresting and lyrically vapid. While you should feel free to enjoy “Hurt” for the circus, don’t expect to like the whole package unless you are a) deaf, b) a twelve-year-old boy, or c) both...

Author: By Teddy R. Sherrill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Christina Aguilera, "Hurt" | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...only other people who could confirm whether this story is true or false are the author's former al-Qaeda comrades," the official says with a laugh. "And as frequently flawed terror reporting and vapid books by so-called experts attests to, those people don't write many letters of denial to newspaper editors or publishers to set the record straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy or Scam? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...album don’t provide McDonald with material as emotionally rich as Guettel does, making her inspired recreations of John Mayer’s facile “My Stupid Mouth” and Neil Young’s boring “My Heart” seem vapid in comparison...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CD Review: Audra McDonald, "Build a Bridge" | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...would finally make the sweaty, dusty ascent to see arguably the most important piece of architecture in the world. But I would always go to the beach or sunbathe (the most perfect word in Greek, “heliotherapia”) on my balcony instead.I know this sounds extremely vapid. The history dork in me was thrilled by antiquity and when I finally got up to the Acropolis, it was amazing. But everyone expected that I would see really really old stuff when I went to Greece; no one, including myself, expected me to come back with any semblance...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just Chilling. | 9/20/2006 | See Source »

Financial pressures can be a double-edged sword. While they keep some museums from updating, they may push others into going too far in catering to the customer, trying to boost attendance by dumbing down the history, ripping out intellectually challenging exhibits to make room for vapid video presentations. "While it's important to give the visitor what they want," says Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the planned National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, "we also have to give the visitor what they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History Goes Hollywood | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

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