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Word: daft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plotless exercise, the film relies much too heavily on the hero's gnomish appearance and musical abilities: at one point the camera stands still while Moore's trio swings through a long and not very interesting jazz number. Miss Kendall's absurd composure seems more daft and deft than the muggings and pratfalls of the near-hysterical comedians around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Suzy's Two: Cynthia & Junction | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worm Beneath the Nail | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Peter Kastner heads an impressive cast that includes Julie Harris, Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page and Rip Torn in this daft if not always deft first effort by Director Francis Ford Coppola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Time Listings: Apr. 21, 1967 | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a visit with an urbane, engaging pair of hosts, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who invite those devoted to civilized wit in for a bit of a daft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 27, 1967 | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school in a chain gang. He was an idealist, your Dad was." Most of the sane characters in Morgan! are a little daft as well, the better to plug the movie's thesis that mental health nowadays may be a mixed blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Case for Treatment | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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