Word: idiotic
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...outraged at these days, but the person who made the statement, "In the hands of such masters as Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, individuals were always shown to be deviates first and human beings second," in a review of The Boys in the Band [March 30], is an idiot. Is Amanda Wingfield more deviate than human? Is Blanche DuBois? Is Maggie Pollitt? Is Serafina Delle Rose? Is Tom Wingfield? Is Mitch in Streetcar"? Is Big Daddy, for that matter? If these people are deviates first and human beings second then I am not a homosexual sitting at a typewriter...
...Here is what Henry Ford should do if he really wants to compete with Volkswagen [Feb. 23]. Send Mrs. Ford, suitably disguised (good luck), with the ailing family car to a dealer for repairs. If her luck is like mine, she will be ignored or treated like an idiot. Nothing will be covered by the warranty...
...Satyricon a "science-fiction trip into the past instead of the future." It blasts off with a scene so brilliant that the whole picture shivers from the thrust. In a masque, a musically flatulent clown capers on a stage, mocking the audience with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty, a death...
...trial of 261 people who were accused of taking part. It was the longest-running case in Japanese judicial history. When Judge Seirokuro Hamaguchi, 62, offered the opinion that the case had not violated the constitutional guarantee of "a speedy and public trial," several angry defendants shouted "Bakayaro!" (Idiot) from the dock...
...album has any shortcoming it lies in Spiro Agnew, and that suffers mostly by comparison. Frye is so dead-on with other politicos they become frighteningly real. Spiro, meanwhile, comes off as a slapstick caricature, a fey idiot who can't tell time...