Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Marines, in a series of vivid, violent images and startling closeups, follows the grim process of making men of them. Naked torsos are lined up in a sterile examination room like sheep. Barbers briskly shear them. Then come the relentless weeks of screamed orders and merciless reprimands ("Hey, stupid, you shave this morning?" "Get that crummy chin up!"), reaching a crescendo in the savagery of bayonet drill. "Downward slash!" barks the drillmaster. "You know what that means." At that point, the Paris audience invariably gasps...
...them. Margery Ziskind, as Grusha, gives one of the most touching performances I've seen on any Harvard stage. Grusha's simple faith and love, her fury at injustice, and her durability are portrayed with a passion so full that they always almost border on the stupid. Miss Ziskind miraculously keeps them on the right side of the line. A good performance would not have been good enough; Miss Ziskind's is magnificent...
What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
...business world: "Stupid, stupid, stupid. Businessmen got ahold of the country in the twenties and look what happened. It's simple, if you're at the low end of the academic ladder in college, you go into business...
...that's just the titillation. Imagine being Lemmon's buddy, Tony Curtis, changing from your girl's costume and convincing Marilyn Monroe--voluptuous, innocent, stupid Marilyn--that you are a rich, kindly, and impotent millionaire. Naturally, Marilyn insists on trying her hand at curing you. ("Oh, you play water polo?" she asks, batting her eyelashes. "Isn't that dangerous?" "Yes," you answer, "I've lost two ponies out from under...