Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always an enemy. Experience can equip an athlete with a savvy to compensate for what he has lost in reflexes. As Ali said in demanding a rematch with Leon Spinks last week: "I may be old, but I'm not dumb." But in physical competition, an old pro's tricks can only postpone retirement...
...neverending words and motions, are largely reminiscent of Robert De Niro in Mean Streets. Teach, a grown-up yet immature punk, follows De Niro's Johnny Boy, save that Guilfoyle lacks De Niro's genius, and his Teach is self-consciously smart, whereas Johnny Boy is too dumb to know any better...
...This is where it is at," Califano declared happily last week. That was after being told by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that his department was guilty of "dumb insolence" before the Congress, that it had a tradition of "obfuscation, frequently lying, but in any case avoidance of the issue." But so much for one day's flak. The very next morning he was at the White House with seven key members of Congress announcing the new college-aid proposals, and Kentucky's Carl Perkins clapped him soundly on the back and declared, "I think...
Nothing weighty emerges from these characters' random encounters. What the film does produce is an unflattering portrait of Bob Dylan's ego. Almost all the characters - including the performers he elbows off-screen in the musical numbers - treat the hero with dumb-struck reverence. Grateful Indians and blacks gleefully accept his political support. Worse still, Dylan fills Renaldo and Clara with self-deifying Christ images. At least we are spared a crucifixion scene...
Pippin is the story of Charlemagne and his two sons, Pippin and Louis. Louis is his mother Fastrada's dearest, strong and mighty in battle, but very dumb. Pippin is his father's favorite--educated, benevolent, unlike his brother. Michael Rupert's Pippin, with his dingledodly, flaky normality, steals the crowd's empathy from his brother. While Louis sends ripples through his biceps, Pippin catechizes the dilemmas of his life--something most theater buffs can better relate...