Word: dumbness
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...they are." White thinks that if the full Watergate story had been known, the public would still have chosen Nixon. This curious thinking leads to the inevitable conclusion that the secretive Nixon and White, who ignores this man, think that the American people "as they are," are quite dumb...
...that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations, James Coco as CBS'S Calucci is plagued by his crotchety/lazy/dumb staff at the local unemployment department, and Norman Fell, on NBC'S Needles and Pins, suffers crotchety/lazy/ dumb family relations and employees in his garment factory...
Nevertheless, some of the performances are fun to watch. Dyan Cannon plays a brassy, bitchy manager, joyfully screwing Coburn and half the crew. You never know whether to toss Cannon off as the sexy starlet "dumb broad" type, or look for intelligence behind her unabashed flattery. She manages to maintain this tension in her role throughout the film, and Ross uses her well as a counterpoint to more mundane dialogue. Richard Benjamin is the sliding writer, questioning and confused about the cruise and its purposes; Joan Hackett plays his clinging wife; and Mason plays the washed up director with...
...hrer and his court relaxing (if that is the word) in his mountain retreat at Obersalzberg. The film had been lying un noticed in the U.S. Marine archives in Washington since 1946. Only a fraction of it was usable, partly because Eva Braun had a dumb love of mountain views, and expended miles of film in slow, jiggly pans across the misty peaks. What remains is the only off-the-record view that exists of Hitler's home life, and it lends Swastika an extraordinary fascination...
Howls of pain and madness echo through these pages: Heracles tearing at the poisoned shirt on his back as a dead monster's venom scalds his veins; Ajax on the plains of Troy-big, dumb Ajax, crazed by the goddess Athene-slashing bulls' throats and breaking the backs of sheep dogs under the delusion that he is slaying his enemies...