Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weaknesses as its parent publication. At its best it perfectly expresses the fears and loathings of kids who came of age in the late '60's; at its worst Animal House revels in abject silliness. The hilarious highs easily compensate for the puerile lows. A few dumb gags about ROTC thugs and big breasts do not detract from the film's scabrous assaults on undergraduate caste systems, sanctimonious preppies and liberal pieties. Besides, how can one fail to like a campus film that kills off one of the coeds in a kiln explosion...
...Eyes of Laura Mars is simply another in a long line of hyped-up fiascos. The picture starts nowhere and goes nowhere, the story is plain dumb and the acting is pathetically poor. The director seems to have hastily thrown together some pretty bad bits and pieces and tried to pass it off as a whole motion picture...
Your picture of Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller [July 17] brandishing a wood in hip-high rough may, as you say, show the "ultimate in self-confidence," but it is the ultimate of several other things as well, like dumb golf...
...last word on the state of American photography; in deed, some of his choices, no less than his uncompromisingly aesthetic position, will be a subject of harsh debate. But it deserves to be seen and seen again, for its emphasis on the apolitical, the uneventful, the odd, the dumb and the chancy is now a kind of official view with which photography itself must reckon...
Heaven Can Wait--Warren Beatty does it all in this rather stupid movie. Our sources say it's enjoyable, but incredibly dumb...up to you. If you're thinking of reincarnation, you'll love this...