Word: vapid
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...brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered the grand...
Irving clearly intends an affirmative answer to this question, although the evidence he offers on this point is far from conclusive. Quite late in the novel he is still calling his hero "vapid" and "eternally insipid," judgments that seem, unfortunately, pretty close to the mark...
...slightest hint that these people's lives (and those of their children) are anything but fodder for tabloid speculation and ridicule. You made fun of the headlines the breakup has produced in other publications, but you had no right to assume superiority when your own reporting was so vapid, meanspirited and soulless. ROBERT E. RYDER Savannah...
...South Florida. She's only half right. They have politics fatigue. The campaign seems like an insufferably long extension of the Clinton scandal and the partisan bickering that followed. And now, after a year of campaigning that felt like 10, Floridians are daily subjected to an assault of vapid, 30-second TV spots that seem designed to lower the national...
...remarked that Jessica Simpson's chin would prevent her from being a star, but now I realize that she's going nowhere as long as she keeps logging entries into that damn diary on her official website. You have to read it all the way through to appreciate how vapid this Britney-wannabe actually is (she even gushes about a starstruck encounter with-gag-Celine Dion), but here's a sample to tide you over: "Nick [Lachey, from 98 Degrees] was a little upset because I encouraged him to get his hair cut and they really cut it short...