Word: brainlessness
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...trying to get through a particularly difficult mid-teen summer on Long Island. His parents have enough money, he gets to use the car and the speedboat, but he is still vaguely dissatisfied. The root of his trouble is hardly unique: girls. To him they seem frivolous yet desirable, brainless but captivating. They all appear to share one dominating characteristic: inaccessibility...
Joseph Maher is acceptable as Masha's doting husband Kulygin, a pathetic and essentially brainless schoolteacher who likes to go around spouting worn-out Latin slogans. We must forgive him, for he knows not what he does to Masha...
...visionary, or even decent and more humane, people retake the White House and the decision-making nexus, our job is to obstruct the government in every conceivable way -- if we do, in fact, have mankind's best interests at heart, and not merely a chauvinistic longing to keep the brainless bureaucracy running at top speed. This doesn't necessarily require a positive commitment to a specific ideology or program, just the realization of what America has in mind for the rest of the world is probably worth trying to prevent...
Babe backs up Deitch and Adagala with an engaging ensemble. Patricia Hawkins is Garga's selfish, brightly brainless wife. Jim Shuman, Anthony Mowbray, and Lloyd Schwartz as Skinny, the Baboon and the Worm respectively are a trio of underworld figures who are funny yet always potentially dangerous. And I. M. Lamb as Garga's father is the most amazingly impotent old man ever to live off his children...
...ranking officer is dead. After using machine guns to quell a rebellion by U.S. survivors who get it into their heads to elect a civilian government, he sets himself up as World Leader, or Commander-1. In his brave new science-fiction world, the males are all drugged into brainless docility, while the sturdiest and, presumably, best-looking women are kept around as Selected Future Leader Breeders. Geraghty's ultimate goal: to rebuild the U.S. population, then track down and kill all non-Caucasian survivors elsewhere. "We've had this racial problem once before in the world," says...