Word: mindlessness
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...makers blame their audiences' tastes rather than their own for what gets on the air, Dozier produced not only Batman but also two other series that contributed to TV's debasement during that period-Green Hornet and The Tammy Grimes Show. Tammy, an implausible sitchcom about a mindless heiress, lasted only four weeks and was, as Dozier himself admitted to his class, "the most conspicuous failure ever on television." Now that he is back in movies, Dozier feels free to lecture his longtime TV colleagues. "There hasn't been a meaningful show since The Defenders," he says...
...peaceful) demonstration Friday is that it would clearly test the University's tolerance of violent dissent. Veterans of the October sit-in should avoid the fallacy that they have to prove their sincerity by playing confrontation politics with the Administration. They would be indulging in the same mindless, reflex escalation they rightly deplore in this country's Vietnam policy...
...issues of the superintendency battle are depressingly simple. The four Independents, who jealously insist that outsiders like the local educators be excluded from any part in their selection process, are indulging in the same mindless parochialism that won Louise Day Hicks her numerous following. Fitzgerald's motion should be defeated, but barring that, the Independent majority should at least have the honesty not to limit the committee's search to faithful local cronies...
...ANIMATION: Marcello, I'm So Bored by John Milius, 23, of U.S.C., begins with an epitaph from the late Erroll Flynn: "I believe I'm a very colorful character in a rather drab age." It then flashes through a quick-cutting kaleidoscope of mindless pleasure seekers-motorcyclists, teenyboppers, discothèque dancers-accompanied by a sound track of sighs and despairing screams. One judge saw in the eight-minute film a viable cinematic equivalent...
...ahead, each considering for the first time the seriousness of their act and the problems ahead; Nichols' muting of the otherwise conventional happy ending adds some honesty to the denouement, at the same time creating a sense of regret that similarly thoughtful moments don't characterize The Graduate's mindless, largely unmotivated, second half...