Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this glittering, exotic, useless way of life. Yet the conflict between her resistance on the one hand and the constant sexual wooing of her male and female friends on the other--to persuade her that once she tries it she'll like it--is unconvincing. Emmanuelle, in her unfailingly dumb, wondering way, never leaves any doubt that in the end she'll give in, she'll assimilate in the most predictable way possible, not with a bang but with a whimper. Sylvia Kristel as Emmanuelle is tall and leggy but her only notion of acting seems to be to widen...
...over from Paris. Everyone is sleeping in the half-lit cabin. Except Emmanuelle and craggy faced man sitting across the aisle. She gets up and gets a blanket. He looks over a few times She looks back. He can't believe it. His face is such a mask of dumb stupor that when he finally heaves out of his seat to cross the aisle it's too much, the audience began giggling at this point and didn't stop. The couple's writhing and gasping is intercut with shots of another man with a craggy face sitting behind them...
...Ladies' Home Journal is not so dumb. It commissioned Renaissance Woman Candice Bergen, 28, to get inside the White House and shoot some informal pictures of the First Family. Candy had already caught the eye of official White House Photographer David Hume Kennerly, who obligingly set up exclusive photo sessions for her. Candy seemed exclusive too. So it was that an envious Washington photo corps saw Candy and David not only stepping out together at the state dinner for visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto but even indulging in a little slap-and-tickle as well...
that the other side of a giant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked. Where else would that apply more? (Except perhaps on Capitol Hill, but there they have to get used to having a shoe clerk tell them what dumb jerks they are every two years...
...known as "the dumb quarterback"? (Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw...