Word: dumbness
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...bring Aquitaine down is to build a legal case against them--prove they are breaking every conceivable law. He makes contact with one of the generals posing as the representative of a rich client who wants to buy into the organization. Well, the generals aren't that dumb; they figure him out; but they want to know who sent him, so they set him up as a man who has gone crazy as a result of Vietnam (delayed stress) and is running around killing people. They implicate him in the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Germany and other important...
...Baseball owners," Hap says, "are the toughest set of ignoramuses anyone could ever come up against. They always have been. Refreshingly dumb fellows: greedy, shortsighted and stupid. They created this job in 1921 only because, after the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the American people needed a symbol of complete authority and absolute integrity. But I don't expect baseball ever really wanted a commissioner at all. When the clubs pushed me out in 1951, they had a vacancy and decided to keep...
...made a dumb choice," she said, referring to President Reagan's economic policy, which allows for high interest rates and a huge federal deficit...
...requires discretion in handling the queasy physical facts of the case, a certain ironic detachment about the human capacity for turning sexual adventure into sexual folly, and a firm sense of values on the director's part. Farce, which must accept its characters on their own dumb or dizzy terms, is the wrong way to handle the dubious premise of a film like Blame It on Rio. It is too indelicate...
MORE REFRESHING than all this is that the yuks betray an intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets...