Word: dumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again the President fell to his doubts: "I mean, God, maybe we were talking about a cover-up?Watergate. I really didn't, I didn't know what the hell?I honestly didn't know ... It's not comfortable for me because I was sitting there like a dumb turkey...
...Towne do not give him the chance to get into any depth. Gittis is a nickel-and-dimer trying to boost himself into the big time. He wears sharp, fussy suits and throws out a line of bright chatter. But there are still times when he sounds like the dumb cop on the deadend Chinatown beat. All this is fine, but it is all there is. Chandler made Philip Marlowe into a paladin. For Polanski and Towne, Gittis is simply a protagonist who has nothing at stake, a kind of genial guide through all the thickets of plot...
...mind chatters, his hands tremble with terminal withdrawal symptoms. He is a burnt-out case spilling his legal papers and tapes while the cool, disembodied voice of the law tells him that his case is closed. Merely to look at him is to be terribly moved: one beholds the dumb, spent eyes of the fox at the end of hunt...
...Barb or Ray know. I decided the environment was a little to polarized for me there, so I went over to Berkeley. I didn't have any money, although I had a few good books and three records: On the Threshhold of a Dream, by the Moody Blues, Deaf, Dumb and Blind, by Pharaoh Sanders, and Readings of James Joyce, including an original cut of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...