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The kind of detachment the movie is peddling isn't artistic, it isn't life--it's nihilism at its most fatuous.
Enormous population of nonvoters felt time was better spent making crude remarks at expense of fatuous candidates.
The director clearly adores Ryan, but she's the actress's worst enemy, goading her into ever more sickening reaches of chin-wagging cuteness--such as her fatuous look of enchantment on the subway or the furtive little hip-hops to her laptop after her Luddite boyfriend has left for the office.
But because it is put forward by a fatuous Charleston, S.C., college professor, we hear it for what Horwitz rightly calls it: "a clever glide around race and slavery, rather like the slick-tongued defense of the Southern 'way of life' made by antebellum orators, South Carolinians in particular."
West's essay on Du Bois in Africana seemed a re-working of his essay on Du Bois in The Future of the Race . There is nothing new said in his Africana essay, and his presentism, his insistence on judging a historical figure by current moral standards, I find fatuous, just poor scholarship.