Essentially, he's a lobotomized version of the go-getter he played in " Reality Bites " _ though here he's the one being bitten, by Schaeffer's take on downtown art vacuousness.
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That puts a heavy burden on the soloists : not only must they have the range and agility to meet the music's demands, but they must sing thrillingly enough to make the work's vacuousness seem beside the point.
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Variety shows perished from their own vacuousness ( death knell : " The Brady Bunch Hour, " 1977 ), but award shows have survived thanks to an air of urgency that makes us feel like we're watching breaking news.
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Dismayed by the privileged people around her, she decides that life is meaningless, and that unless she can find something worth living for, beyond the " vacuousness of bourgeois existence ", she will commit suicide on June 16, her thirteenth birthday.
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Shelley Long ( as Carol ) and Gary Cole ( Mike ) stay in tune with the vacuousness of the material, as do the Brady children, in a film that " manages to be painless and pointless in equal measure " ( Maslin ).
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Singer-songwriter Thomas Dolby's 1988 song " Airhead " includes the lyric, " Quod erat demonstrandum, baby, " referring to the self-evident vacuousness of the eponymous subject; and in response, a female voice squeals, delightedly, " Oooh . . . you speak French !"
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The cast, featuring potentially pulse-quickening cameos by real " Brady Bunch " television stars ( Ann B . Davis, Florence Henderson, Barry Williams ), is led by Shelley Long ( as Carol ) and Gary Cole ( Mike ), who are nicely in tune with the vacuousness of their material.
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Eller concludes that inventing prehistoric ages in which women and men lived in harmony and equality " is a burden that feminists need not, and should not bear . " In her view, the " matriarchal myth " tarnishes the feminist movement by leaving it open to accusations of " vacuousness and irrelevance that we cannot afford to court ."
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He continues, " The bill is not original with New Mexicans, but instead, clearly inspired by the Intelligent Design movement; for example, the pro-ID think tank, Seattle s Discovery Institute, promotes a model bill . . . " There is also, " David Thomas : Something Rotten In Denmark : How Hamlet's Weasel Reveals The Vacuousness Of Intelligent Design ."
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Stephen Dalton of " Annie, For The Ting Tings, though, it suggests there's no way back from Nowheresville . " " The Observer " s Killian Fox opined that the duo " can still write a catchy tune [ . . . ] but these songs are all surface, with only the odd hook to snag us . " Guy Oddy of The Arts Desk panned the album, dubbing it a " disappointment " and expressing that " it's not wholly clear whether the Ting Tings have become cultural commentators, like Negativland without samplers, and " Super Critical " is a prank about the vacuousness of so much chart pop, or whether they've committed commercial suicide ."
