The Poitier and Berenger roles are perfunctorily sketched, their exchanges sometimes excruciatingly embarrassing. Cohn, unwilling to abandon the picture, perfunctorily apologized. This caused a rift with Johnson, which was only perfunctorily mended shortly before his death. Those arguments were dismissed by the Court more perfunctorily. She is carefully decorated on her back, but her underside is "quite perfunctorily finished". Duare thanks Carson perfunctorily for saving her from the kloonobargan, a word Burroughs explains.