Word: brainlessness
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...TRIFLE MORALISTIC, perhaps. More mature, too Gone is the bitter chase after the brainless goddess. He's gotten her and discovered that he would rather have his wife. Perhaps this change has taken with it the side-splitting humor of Sleeper or Bananas. Not to be misleading; this film is not unfunny. If it were not "the new Woody Allen" it would undoubtedly receive uniformly more positive reviews than it has. Sex Comedy provides at least a half dozen good chuckles and a continuous grin. At the beginning of a new phase. Woody Allen is learning to be both funny...
...essential flaw, still combines deception with dignity. So does Mr. Stockman. Chagrined now, he turns his figure of speech against himself, contending that it is he who has assumed the role of the "wooden beast without a brain." But the image is inappropriate again. Mr. Stockman is far from brainless, and hardly a beast. He has simply risked his kingdom for a metaphor...
...cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie is a mindless, though benevolent, sucker who babbles about reincarnation and defends Joe's dealing by remarking "Dope's all right--dope is for everyone!" Malle's Atlantic City seems to suck all the aimless and the brainless from everywhere across America to itself, gathering them in this sinkhole so they can leech off each other...
...name calling on the house floor that raised doubts about whether ERA supporters could ever get the crucial two votes. Matijevich angrily accused Thompson of having "provided virtually nothing." Republican representatives booed noisily. The next day, Thomas Hanahan, a Democrat from rural McHenry, who once described feminists as "braless, brainless broads," accused ERA supporters of attempting to bribe waffling legislators with offers of big campaign contributions; he provided no evidence. Proponents accused him, in turn, of trying to frighten fence sitters into opposing the amendment...
...tough, violent and fanatical. Most of the films are cheaply made and American--throwaway B-pictures produced from a collaboration of unruly talent. Nearly all of them fit into what critic Manny Farber has called "the termite range" of art, art which is characterized by stubborn, quirky, all but brainless energy...