Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wanda: It's not as dumb as you think, my naysaying husband. People have higher expectations of marriage than they used to, and the attempt to list some of these expectations is all to the good. It wouldn't be such a bad idea for us to work out a contract, Ralph...
Supporting these superb performers is an ensemble of a quality far more common in London than the U.S. Notable among them: Julie Hagerty, who makes Hildy's fiancee a genuine lure instead of a drippy debutante; Ed Lauter as the nastiest newsman; Jack Wallace as a dumb, obsequious but likable cop; Deirdre O'Connell as the doomed hooker; and Jerome Dempsey as a chillingly venal mayor. Tony Walton's set deftly uses a 65-ft. depth on the Vivian Beaumont stage to convey a cavernous public building in Roman Preposterous style, and Willa Kim's costumes evoke the era without...
...this way Orsay points to the future, for the old relation between museums and contemporary painting has switched in the 1980s. A hundred years ago you had brilliant painters and dumb museums; today the reverse. It is inconceivable that the marginality and hamfistedness of most of what passes for major painting at the end of the 20th century could have been taken seriously in the Paris of Degas, Cezanne and Rodin. Under the heat of the market, avant-garde and pompier have simply fused into an opaque, complacent lump. Only in the museum, it seems, can the full evidence...
...Almost every one of the film's creative elements, from characters to special effects, shows a degree of thought and attention to detail most youth comedies do without. Yet all the effort--clever dialogue, gruesome special effects, expertly choreographed car crashes--exists to propel an idea that is, well, dumb. Landis made a werewolf movie that is nothing more than a werewolf movie; a pity, because it could have conveyed more profound sentiments than "Yikes!" Landis said he got the idea in 1969, when while traveling through Yugoslavia, he saw a ritual peasant burial to guard against corpses rising from...
...question matters because Dubus insists that actions, however dumb or careless, create moral consequences. Someone is to blame for wife and child battering, for drug abuse, for racial hatred, for crime, for the sense of dread that is "loose in the land." In Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil...