Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printer as union politician, a shrewd and self-made man whose formal education ended with the second year of high school. By 1961, Powers' ambition had carried him all the way to the presidency of Local 6, from which eminence he issued the command that struck nine dailies dumb...
...think it does us an injustice to imply that we are just plain too dumb to be elected," he said...
...many things in it don't click-loud. The dog bit is sometimes good for an arf, but Actor Darin and Actress Dee, who are Mr. and Mrs. in real life too, just sort of stand there most of the time and look like Tweedle Dumb and Twiddle Dee. And the production, like all of Ross Hunter's productions (Pillow Talk, Midnight Lace), is in the cheapest kind of expensive bad taste. It's the sort of picture, in short, in which the heroine wears 32 costumes but only one expression: goo-goo eyes...
...course. What is missing is the tragic sense. Captain Ahab is an authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the "malice inscrutable" of the White Whale. His mate Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds him that "a poor dumb thing" can have no malice. What Welles fails to grasp is that it is the inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance for the great whale's heart, he seeks to know the secret...
...spare time "chattin' up the typies.'' One day he chats up a little bit of all right (June Ritchie) who is just as twee as she can be on five quid a week, and so blonde he doesn't notice that she's dumb-like a fox. She sprays him with a boy bomb of cheap scent called "Desire." and the next thing he knows she is standing there with her clothes off. Some weeks later she's got news for him: "Om pregnant...