Word: dolt
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...rise from high school dolt to Yale alum, from addict governor to born-again president, Bush was rewarded over and over for finding dubious backdoors when misbehavior and mediocrity closed off the front. The once-Skull and Bones, now O’Douls drinker learned early to say things he doesn’t mean and make commitments he has no intention of keeping...
...actors act out stereotypes as directed. On the overacting side of the spectrum sit Michael Badalucco as Doris’ portly dolt of a brother and Polito as the comical entrepreneur. Thornton, on the other hand, is so dry that he makes Clint Eastwood looks like Richard Simmons, and McDormand is positively wasted as a dull pawn of Ed’s and the Coens’ plottings. Gandolfini, never better than when flaunting a corker of a malicious smile, lingers securely in the middle of the scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing...
...better times, college life was filled with endearing letters home for doting Mrs. Smiths to stow away for posterity. And even the most brutish dolt could string together a few paragraphs of mannerly prose. Now, the FAS server crashes and chaos ensues. The inconvenience caused by these infrequent lapses is not the most serious consequence of Harvard's electronic fetish--students' writing, manners, and thinking suffer as well. Would that every day were like last Friday...
...stage hijinks, all of which seem to involve Thurston Moore in some way. One notable exception is a short parody of Madonna's "Truth or Dare" in which Madonna, as played by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, is made to pay for her castigation of the well-meaning dolt Kevin Costner, as played by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. All the rest of the bits feature the wit and wisdom of Moore, who states at one point that "my mind is turning into a huge gelatinous ball of pepper...
...candidates talk directly to one another. Vice President Dan Quayle and Clinton's No. 2, Al Gore, tore into each other with a zest that frequently left Perot's running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale, a tongue-tied bystander. Quayle was a far cry from the vacuous dolt so often portrayed. He mounted a sharply focused, though overly glib and often shrill, attack, repeatedly taunting Gore about "pulling a Clinton" -- that is, waffling. Gore, though a bit stiff and repetitious -- it would be hard to count how many times he accused the White House of practicing "trickle-down economics...