Word: vapidness
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Possessed. Joan Crawford and Van Heflin do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...
Possessed. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin and flashes of good movie-making do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...
...Song of Love, in which Pianist Artur Rubinstein plays Schumann's music straight (TIME, May 26). Schumann's Träumerei will be crooned and swung as Fantasy; the song Widinung will be known as Dedication. From the great A Minor Piano Concerto, Mossman has wrung a vapid tune called A Love Story...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A slightly vapid piece of music, but with vague whisperings of the strivings and yearnings which burst out in the composer's Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. Performance: fair...
...sure, there are bad moments. One dance that is meant to take place in a beauty parlor involves nine (not ten) young ladies costumed as fingernails performing a rather vapid series of body movements. But luckily the tempo is fast, and in a few minutes the girls are out there again doing a delightful waltz and jitterbug act. Then a few minutes more, and they're in a dazzling outdoor scene that has a spontaneity seldom seen in professional ice performances...