Word: dumbness
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What finds favor here is young, loud and, except in its careerism, invincibly dumb. It wants to be winsomely outrageous as a form of ingratiation. Its mood is claustrophobic because its sense of history (i.e., anything that happened before Warhol, except for kitsch surrealism...
...underestimates her man. Charley's salient virtue is loyalty, and once committed to her, he will stop at nothing short of marriage. Nor does she understand that he is not as dumb as Nicholson funnily, bravely makes him look. Charley's shrewdness is on a slow-burning fuse, but it is very much a part of his tenacious nature. He is bound to discover that the career in which Irene is making the greatest strides is not her visible one, but her hidden one: hit person for the Mob, with a sideline that includes cheating the Prizzis...
Alice is a full-time scrapper, never at a loss, even when she stands silently glaring at Ralph after he has done something typically dumb or outrageous. Many of her comebacks refer to his weight. Early on, Gleason discovered one of the first truths of comedy: a fat man is almost always funnier than a thin one. "This is probably the biggest thing I ever got into," says Ralph of one of his moneymaking schemes. "The biggest thing you ever got into," responds Alice, "was your pants." Afraid that she will skimp on dinner to save money, he says, "Then...
...time Mike gets safely back to the good old U.S. of A., a few soreheads may complain that Bruce hasn't really got the hang of Japan and that what we have here is sort of a dumb parody of a caricature. Or you might hear that the language is not actually ironic and incisive and all the rest, but more like a transcript of lonely guy bar talk, right there at the pitch it reaches when happy hours are ending. Don't listen to the gloom and doom. But if you do and decide not to give Tokyo Woes...
...this sounds dumb, it is because Foreman wants it to; his humor is self-effacing. He is neither dim nor punch- drunk. He has a sense of pride and confidence that seems to accompany enormous physical strength and the conviction that one is doing something right (financial solvency might play some part in this cheerful outlook as well, that and extremely early retirement). In any event, all Foreman wants to do is save souls and help young boys out of the gutter, his admitted childhood playground. "I saw some of the fellows I used to drink with standing around...