Word: glibness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Like Harry Potter peering into the mirror of Erised, investors examining this wacky stock market can see exactly what they want to see. The fumbled election? Terrible news, say the grim. No clear winner; no telling what's in store. Wonderful news, say the glib. So much confusion means so much gridlock in Congress that we'll probably not get any dumb spending bills or tax cuts. Read: The surplus is safe...
...Nader hadn't run... God spare me the purists." Deb Callahan, president of the League of Conservation Voters, said the Nader biography has to be rewritten. "This changes his legacy as a person." What really rankled them, critics said when they paused to catch their breath, was Nader's glib insistence throughout his campaign that there was no significant difference between Bush and Gore, whom he called Tweedledee and Tweedledum...
Guest, 52, is the director, co-writer and co-star of Best in Show, third in a series of "mockumentaries" (a term he thinks is deplorably glib) that he has made about people who are losing--but smiling because they love the game. In this case their eyes are fixed on the top prize in the Mayflower Dog Show. You wouldn't call them a statistically accurate cross section of American life. How many of us, after all, are literally born with two left feet, as is co-writer Eugene Levy's character, co-owner of a cool little Norwich...
...Guest, 52, is the director, cowriter and costar of "Best in Show," third in a series of "mockumentaries" (a term he thinks is deplorably glib) that he has made about people who are losing but smiling because they love the game. In this case their eyes are fixed on the top prize in the Mayflower Dog Show. You wouldn't call them a statistically accurate cross section of American life. How many of us, after all, are literally born with two left feet, as is cowriter Eugene Levy's character, co-owner of a cool little Norwich terrier...
...were not with the pack, there was no room for you--all the gradations were lost," says a contemporary. "But he was skeptical of the groupthink; he stayed independent of the mob." One reason some classmates didn't realize how bright he was, argues Birge, was that he was glib and "almost always funny. He would essentially manipulate the environment to make it less confrontational and avoid conflict...