Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...dead; though today's fighters don't go twenty-five or thirty rounds, though tickets to a good fight now cost as much as seats for a ballet, when Italian legions scream "Nino!" a gut-level nationalism is present; and when Clay returns to floor a dumb (if scrappy) Irish fighter like Quarry, and a stronger Oscar Bonavena, the crowd roars for him not only as a boxer, but as a surrogate warrior fighting for appealing politics and style...
...railway intersections, the Paris police discovered that all of the trains involved passed under the same bridge in the small commune of Viorne near Paris. A housewife in the district, Claire Amelie Lannes, 51, was confronted by detectives and at once confessed to the murder of her deaf-and-dumb cousin and housekeeper. In point of fact, A Place Without Doors was inspired by a slightly different case. In December 1949, a 51-year-old housewife killed her husband with a hatchet and chopped him up into many pieces which she threw off a bridge (Pont de la Montagne Pavee...
Someone mentioned a small town in Ohio that petitioned the government to remove the rest of their sons from fighting units, because 60 per cent of their young men had been killed in action. "Haw! haw!" laughed Marvin. "They must have been awful damn dumb...
...just didn't come through. A few days later, we realized what a dumb piece of filmmaking riverrun was. In late November, there wouldn't have been that delay...
Archie's Fun House (CBS): Filmation is a leading producer of Saturday-morning TV with 2˝ hours, including that masterwork of animated fatuity, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Stand Up? Both Jerry and Archie are marked by strong anti-intellectualism (teachers are dumb or sadistic; scientists talk with burlesque accents). Both shows are lavishly produced, but Archie shows bigger profits by far. Incorporating all the old malt-shop wit of the comic strip, the hour-long marathon features film clips of kids giggling, and promotes rock-Muzaktwo of the songs have sold more than a million copies...