Word: dumbness
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Lulu has a blustery intensity that finds its source largely in the superb performance of Gian Maria Volonte. He plays the conscientious and eventually disconcerted Lulu with just the right mixture of dumb charm and derangement. It is Petri's thesis that the industrial state can be located somewhere between depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela...
...Gerry Ford's brains since he got into politics. When he first ran for Congress in 1948, campaign workers shuddered when Ford spoke to audiences, who found him likeable but unintelligent. Jerry terHorst, later to become President Ford's first press secretary, finally decided that "Gerry Ford wasn't dumb, he lacked knowledge." "I'm an old lineman." Ford says today. "I try to be a good blocker and tackler for the running back who carries the ball...
...Since the outdoor courts aren't ready yet, to save time indoors we used the no add, NCAA, system of scoring. "The system gives a slight advantage to the underdog, because you can win a game on a dumb mistake." That said yesterday...
...despairing agreement. When Lenny blows up at him for moving in on Jackie, George tries to calm the executive with the sincere assurance that Jackie truly loves him. But such scenes are unconvincing, for George's overall personality has been made abundantly clear: he is nothing but a dumb stud, whose only responsibility is to make sure he wipes his groin clean before going from one woman to the next (which, incidentally, he fails to do when he beds down with Felicia minutes after making her daughter). His dailogue runs from such phrases as "Uh...Well...Uh...Geee, I didn...
...didn't see it" over and over and louder and louder into each ear. Russell's tasteless hand-held camera is thrusting and jabbing, commanding us to feel the child's trauma. So of course we feel very little, which perhaps makes sense because Tommy is struck deaf, dumb and blind by the experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed and looking like the aftermath of a heavy night of smashing guitars in the days when The Who used to wear their coke spoons publicly around their necks, and rumors flew that thousands of dollars worth...