Word: vapid
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...while Blair purports to set his narrative in the larger framework of the black experience, as a work of African-American studies, his memoir is largely vapid. Most incredulously, he refers incorrectly to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man three times, adding an article to the title and therefore inadvertently—and inexcusably—alluding to H.G. Wells’ The Invisible...
That's not to say there is no longer prejudice against the paper's what-the-news-means-to-you populism, quickly read articles and heavy graphics, which may explain why the paper has never won a Pulitzer Prize. But the knee-jerk conception of USA Today as a vapid, happy-news paper has been an outdated cliche for more than a decade. True, early versions of the paper, founded in 1982, were known for columns like Offbeat USA ("The Human Side of the News")--glib news bits that sent the message "Hey, we know this is news...
...that, despite its faults, radio hip-hop has consistently pushed sonic boundaries. “Platinum BlaQue Party” employs shaker, hi-hat and triangle samples straight from a Missy Elliott chart-topper, along with a creamy-wet, futuristic synth. The lyrics imitate radio-hop’s vapid babble but exaggerate it even further, laying bare its superficiality. “I got so much access to excess,” they croon, “words cannot describe my success.” Yet Ladd has so much fun in the process that “Platinum...
Scott’s ancestor Henry Adams, Class of 1858, wrote in his autobiography that he found his fellow Harvardians vapid and uninteresting. But Scott has enjoyed the company of his classmates over the past year and a half. “Not having to deal with stupid people is really nice,” he says. He admits that his Western upbringing and staunch Republican politics set him apart from the East Coast prep set. “We just don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. I think some people find...
...difficulty with language was symptomatic of greater limitations of reason. The terror itself proved every rational explanation inadequate. Our policies on Israel and the Palestinians were not themselves culpable, neither our program of economic sanctions nor our indefatigable allegiance to foreign oil. All of these causes were vapid because they were boundless—each leads into the next in a way that leaves the words that describe them faded in light of real calamity...