Word: dopey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should Ted James know what makes a great movie?"-and cautions that "the film industry is among the most difficult to forecast. We analysts just have to have the courage of our convictions and hope we're right 51% of the time." In their executive offices on Dopey Drive, the Disney people are hoping that Ted James is right only...
...entire decade clinging in his Slav roots, rooting a variation of The New World symphony on his recorder. Early on, his father calls him "a coward not a fighter". Penn wants you to feel Danelo has become a fighter, yet his moment of triumph involves kicking a local dopey cup in the groin and then throwing up on him. Instead of learning from his experiences, or gaining social awareness, Danclo remains basically the dimwit we met a long, long two hours ago, pursuing whatever brunette happen to be with him (we never see how he meets them) and retaining true...
...camps or because of something characteristic. Argyle 4 used to be a storage depot for Hong Kong's armed forces. Now it looks like a teen-age canteen, the kids loitering under the fluorescent lights like teen-agers in any poor city neighborhood, their self-possession equally dopey and sinister...
...technocratic Evil Genius (David Warner) who has his own ideas about creating the world ("I would have started with lasers, 8 o'clock on Day One!"). But by then it has forfeited any residue of good feeling. Who can care about six dwarfs when they're all Dopey...
...cockpit for a simulated flight. The National Rifle Association, which has mounted a nationwide campaign against gun controls, is less subtle: a Scout learns how to shoot and how to cook the game he kills. More popular are lessons in how to pan for gold. "There's nothing dopey about trying it," says Frank Gallagher, 15, of State College, Pa. "I know a kid who did it in North Carolina and got himself $45 worth...