This 'shock tactic' approach, the product of financial panicking, makes for neat, 'safe', lightweight entertainment.

For Christopher Hunt, the English-born director of the festival, its point and purpose are emphatically not to provide lightweight entertainment.

So while literally and figuratively giving off many good vibes, it adds up to lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums.

Heard superficially, Scarlatti's sonatas can seem lightweight Baroque entertainments, or perhaps even technical studies that are more edifying for the player than for the listener.

Among the many that have appeared in the last year, only "Ghostbusters II" is the kind of lightweight entertainment that uses spirits merely as a comic prop.

As the host, Peter makes a sobering announcement, but this remains a "lightweight entertainment, enjoyable mostly for the fun of hearing arch, skillful actors deliver droll remarks" (Maslin).

Most of its offerings were the sort of lighthearted and lightweight entertainments traditionally considered suitable for summer, when the brain cannot be taxed but the funny bone can be tickled.

Recorded live in July 1997 at the Harris Concert Hall of the Aspen Music Festival, it is appropriately lightweight entertainment for a summer night in the Rockies.

Irma La Douce is lightweight entertainment, held down by the off hand commentary of Liz Spenz as the owner of the back street cafe where the plot keeps boiling over.

(Brantley) 'DRUMSTRUCK' Lightweight entertainment that stops just short of pulverizing the eardrums (1:30).