Word: dumbness
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...LIFE (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Chris Elliott, former Late Night with David Letterman cutup, plays a nerdy 30-year-old still living with his parents. Elliott's manic gooniness is an acquired taste, but this so-dumb- it's-funny sitcom could be his breakthrough to mainstream success...
...early SoHo, these looked totally out of sync with their surroundings. Yet the contrast between the object and the space around it was part of Shapiro's project. The smallness seemed to gather and focus the room, stretching the distance between your eye and the sculpture, while giving the dumb-looking thing an irksome, gnatlike insistence...
...unfair to tell people that privilege has left them dumb of the ways of the world. Such an assertion insults not only their intelligence and autonomy, but compassion. We are all capable of critically evaluating our enviroment, its impact on us and our place in a wider sphere...
...luxury of separation brings the Wexlers closer together. They agree to meet for family meals and outings without using dumb phrases like "my own space" or "quality time." This couple is about as normal as it gets these days is what Barthelme seems to be saying. For comparison there are Lily's brother Ray and his girlfriend Judy, whose idea of a reunion is to fornicate in the driveway...
...story's ostensible business is to maneuver invincibly innocent Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), an N.Y.U. film student fresh from Vermont, into close proximity with the massively knowing Carmine. A street-dumb kid is just what Carmine needs for one of his nefarious schemes and might also be, as he sees it, just the thing for his spirited daughter (Penelope Ann Miller). But the film defies both convenient description and conventional logic, and in fact it gets into desperate expositional troubles toward the end. This is a movie one loves for its incidental pleasures, not its ultimate intentions, whatever they...