Word: dumbness
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...Darryl Ponicsan's novel can be accused of enormous originality. But there is an un pretentious realism in Towne's script, and Director Ash by handles his camera with a simplicity reminiscent of the way American directors treated lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book on this detail. Nicholson's bluster only partly masks his insecurity as he moves through...
...Hellstrom Chronicle (1971). An often fascinating, sometimes dumb documentary about insects--and how they might inherit the earth. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
...arguing about for as long as there are movies. Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando have altered the face of an art form." Well. Pauline Kael started it all with these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected out of the theater after this one--it's more...
...President Truman neglected to add, in his 77-year-old incipient senility, that had it not been for Douglas MacArthur, "the dumb son of a bitch," and the dumb generals and that cowardly "weak" Dwight Eisenhower, he would not have had a country to be President of. The U.S. can always use such dumb, weak, cowardly sons of bitches while the Trumans sit safely at home or in the Senate-waiting for the country to be saved. And don't remind me he was a captain in World War I. He was still young enough to have been...
This revue can be accused of lack of discrimination, then, or lack of vision; but "Peabody Terrace" is by no means dumb. It treatment of sexism makes a political point and has humorous potential, but it has to fight its way out of too many wild antics. Maybe even the Watergate theme had possibilities--for the Law School appears to breed a spirit of competition not unlike that of a political campaign--laughable, sometimes...