Word: idiotic
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...hazardous in the extreme. One of the oldest is the West Po'kchop Railroad, which runs almost perpendicularly up one side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...
...Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...
...area trapped between Sartoris impotence and Snopes viciousness explains Faulkner's harshness and fury. He is a man possessed and tortured by his vision: too honest to deny it, too sensitive to tolerate it. The horrors of his books-the rapes and castrations, the incestuous romances and idiot flirtations with cows-fall into place, not as exhibits of sensationalism, but instead as images of the social and moral disease that he is constantly probing...
...tragedy. His was a life dominated by gnawing fears and nagging frustrations. As a child, Luther had watched his father destroy himself after learning of his wife's infidelity. As a man, he had found joy neither in his scraggly wife nor his children, one of them an idiot. Only in revivalist religion did he find any outlet for his cramped, unexercised emotions...
Francis is an Army mule who can talk. He gives orders in a voice which sounds like Wallace Becry imitating an Army mule; these orders are taken by an amicable idiot played gracefully by Donald O'Connor. Francis knows how to win the war single-footedly, and O'Connor can wiggle his cars and heehaw softly. Together they make an unbeatable combat team, but they do not make a very funny movie...