Word: dumbness
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...back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down the drain in a clutter of words-Package is perhaps the year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
...kitchen hands. Among them was the Rev. Alan Greene, 70, a master mariner who used to pilot his own Anglican missionary ship along Canada's west coast. As he reported for work, towel over his arm, he quipped: "What a life! From ship's captain to dumb waiter...
...attendant, who heard it on the radio. Then there were the promoters, Feature Sports, Inc. and their counsel. Lawyer Roy Cohn, 33, who has come a long way from the Cohn and Schine days with the late Senator Joe McCarthy. Declared Patterson: "Cohn thinks I'm an insolent, dumb backwoodsman. Before the last fight, my lawyer asked Cohn if I shouldn't see the fight contract. And Cohn said, 'Floyd? Can he read...
...Excellent! Your cover artist James Chapin captured the dumb, hurt, bewildered, what's-happening-to-me look of the typical suburban wife...
...beauty of Judy Holliday's talent lies not least in her meticulous control of it. She knows her type to a tee-hee, and she is never for an instant out of character. Actually, she plays two characters at once: 1) Dumb Dora, the sort of sweet schlemiel who continually falls on her face but always comes up covered with roses, and 2) Dora's diabolical double, a cute cookie who secretly prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that...