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Beyond your brief glimpses into our increasingly vapid pop culture, you probably don't know us very well, but we know you. We've watched in abject fascination as you've grown from a shy little boy pulling at the collar of his frilly shirt into a full-fledged heartthrob whose guarded smile renders many of us embarrassingly weak in the knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Birthday, Prince William, From TIME.com | 6/21/2000 | See Source »

...what is essentially a vapid and uninspired work of traditional box office tripe is Brian De Palma. Throughout his entire career, he has been a director with a distinct emphasis on visual style over substantiative content, and the truth remains with _M2M_. Even as the mother of all sandstorms rips space travellers apart and astronauts soar weightless through their ship before our very eyes, there's little done in these moments to further the story's cause. There is also the sense that we've seen this all before, and we have. It was called _2001: A Space Odyssey_ from...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mission Aborted: A Space Travesty | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Myung Joh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Mangles McCourt's Memoir | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Vote Yes on Referenda | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Fiddling with numbers doesn't help at all. It only turns our House system into a muddled, vapid ball of yarn...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Untangling Our Houses | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

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