Word: vapidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ciaran Owens and 19-year-old Michael Legge. Sadly, only Breen manages to capture the essence of Frankie and the "odd look" he gets from his good-for-nothing, "North of Ireland, Presbyterian" father. Breen, slack-jawed and observant, effectively captures McCourt's portrayal of himself as a slightly vapid child...
...Like her opponents, most of Driskell's other ideas are essentially vapid and unconvincing. For example, although she is in favor of a term-bill hike, she never specifically described how the additional money would be used. Nevertheless, she has acknowledged the council's structural problems and seems genuinely committed to finding a solution. Driskell has used her two-and-a-half years on the council productively but at the same time has maintained visibility among other sectors of the campus and distinguished herself from the current bureaucratic machine. If elected, we hope Driskell can effectively combine her desire...
Fiddling with numbers doesn't help at all. It only turns our House system into a muddled, vapid ball of yarn...
...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...