Word: mindlessness
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There is a little more to the book than that kind of thing. There are beautiful lyric passages of Texas flash-floods and sunsets. There are swell jabs at "artistic" San Francisco hangers-on, mindless but elegant Harvardians slumming in Hollywood, and New York publishing pariahs who know all the names of their authors, but none of the thoughts behind them. Most impressive is a long episode focussed on an economic South Texas uncle, who lives on a huge sheep ranch, and does nothing but eat, curse out his Mexican help, and jeep over to his wife on another ranch...
Peddling is work, sometimes hard work, and anyone attending Irene ought to be forewarned that much of it is about as playful as a Detroit assembly line. The assembly-line touch might even be called the essence of Gower Champion. As a director, he is the relentless master of mindless mechanics. He has never paid more than trifling attention to the meaning of a show. A virtually meaningless show like Irene is an irresistible challenge to him since he can drive the cast and dancers into assembling the pieces, faster and faster and faster. As a result, his direction, like...
...rudiments of Republican Youth gained prominence last summer as a slick, mindless formation called Young Voters for the President (YVPs). Watching them bubble over with enthusiasm on cue from television-conscious programmers presented a striking contrast to the almost over-serious kids who roamed Miami Beach during the Democratic Convention...
...ambushed and machine-gunned to death one afternoon, and three British soldiers were killed during the week. A new technique of terrorism was also discovered: the booby-trapping of some books on the shelves of a Londonderry public library. But the center of attention, for once, was not the mindless murder of innocents but the British government's latest efforts to restore some kind of political order...
Died. James H. Nicholson, 56, co-founder and former president of American International Pictures, which during the '50s and '60s earned healthy profits and abusive reviews with such mindless, minibudgeted films for the adolescent drive-in set as I Was a Teenage Werewolf and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini; following surgery for a brain tumor; in Los Angeles...