Word: vapidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vapid pick-up, a sick-sweet Bailey's sundae, and a frantically joyful party are not subtle devices; but they convey Waletzky's theme--aimlessness and Sunday-afternoon ennui--without themselves being aimless or boring. Sally is the aimless one. She has abandoned her commitment, and though that happens to be an East Cambridge rent project, it could as easily have been politics, creativity, or just another person...
...comic promise and beginning of a vapid farce of mistaken-identity crises. Morse's co-star is Doris Day, playing a pulpy, gulpy Broadway actress named Margaret Garrison, whose bed he blunders into by mistake. To disarm audiences-and possibly critics-she sometimes refers to herself as the Constant Virgin, a sobriquet Doris has actually earned in half a dozen previous films, pursued by the likes of Gary Grant and Rock Hudson but remaining a freckle-faced iron maiden to the fadeout. In this picture, she is equipped with a husband (Patrick O'Neal), but by pouting continually...
...black animosity can breed an antidote to its own racial poison. In Chicago, where the white community dismissed Martin Luther King's 1966 civil rights crusade with a hatful of vapid promises, black pocketbook power has become an effective, constructive force. In less than two years, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 26, a burly, apothegmatizing King lieutenant who praises the Lord and believes in the might of economics, has wrested work from ghetto businessmen for 3,000 of his flock and boosted South Side Negroes' annual income by $22 million...
Based on a vapid H. G. Wells story, Half a Sixpence was a modest triumph as a Broadway musical-short on substance but long on charm. On screen it is just long...
...churned to a fine froth by Conductor Nicola Rescigno, skipped along with the sauce and savoir-faire of a boulevardier on the Champs Elysées. Effective as the singing was-notably Frank Porretta's mugging Orpheus, Jack Bittner's crafty Jupiter and Jeanette Scovotti's vapid Eurydice-it was almost overshadowed by Zachary Solov's spirited, stylish choreography, brilliantly danced by New York City Ballet Stars Melissa Hayden and Jacques D'Amboise. With the help of Jack G. O'Brien's updated English libretto, the buffoonery as well as the bite struck...