Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...denounced Republicans who failed to support Goldwater as "traitors"?an appellation that included, among others, Rockefeller, Brooke, Michigan's Governor George Romney, Senator Jacob Javits of New York and Clifford Case of New Jersey. But after his nearly 1,000,000-vote victory last week, Reagan emphasized "how foolish it is to be separated by labels, how much we really have in common." Reagan may also have been somewhat sobered by the fact that his moderate running mate for Lieutenant Governor, Robert Finch, Nixon's 1960 campaign manager, ran nearly 100,000 votes ahead of him and that...
...That horrible old lady!" she gasps as she staggers toward the nearest exit. The guards charge into the ladies room prepared to corner a criminal, but all they find is a grey wig and a rubber mask and their own foolish faces in the lavatory mirror...
...invention of increasingly destructive means for the extermination of man by man, someone, somehow, and sometime had to engage in the study of the phenomena of unselfish love, no matter how inadequate were his capabilities or how low the esteem of his colleagues for his engaging in such a 'foolish enterprise...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, by Frank Marcus, is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty about the games lesbians play. Beryl Reid, Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers are expert and subtle as three witches, and their vivid interpretations of the foolish and servile, the vain and the vile, stir up a cauldron of laughter...
...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...