Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wisecracks. His cast cannot match the physical style of Mack Sennett, and Mad World's substitute for wit is the flaccid humor of insult. In dozens of roadside hassles, Ethel Merman as Berle's nerve-shattering mother-in-law begins almost every sentence with "Shuddup, you big stupid idiot...
...lies of this great, hulking 300 Ibs. of a man, believes Wolfe, are the key to his life and art. His dreams were more real to him than reality, and to him, all ideas were playthings. Said his third wife, Frida Kahlo: "He never told a lie that was stupid or banal...
...fear. Very few find it. The University is not being asked to hand down moral tenets to serve as guidelines for these people, or in any other way to control their sexual lives. It is being asked for information and understanding, and courage in the face of an often stupid and hypocritical society...
...abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself to the boy, dryly observing: "You're just like him-only half his age, weaker and more stupid." In a cruel final scene, as husband and wife head homeward, the man pulls his car up to a crossroad, immobilized by circumstances and the contradictions of his own nature, literally asking himself which way to turn. The camera pulls back to watch the car squatted there, frozen in time...
Ludwig Erhard has said little on foreign policy in recent years, but he insists, it is "stupid chatter" to suggest that he is uninformed on the subject. He was gravely disturbed by Charles de Gaulle's veto of Britain in the Com mon Market and called it "a black hour for Europe." While he supported Adenauer's treaty with France, privately he makes no secret of the fact that De Gaulle leaves him mystified. The two have met on several occasions, and do not really hit it off. In any case, says Ludwig Erhard somewhat nervously, "De Gaulle...