Word: foolish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...production further discredits the book's judgments. Foreshadowing well-known historical events is thin entertainment and thinner history; passing gradiose sentences from a century-high pedestal of hindsight is bad technique and bad historical explanation. Two Roads does both too often. For example, it was "not only unnecessary but foolish" for Douglas backers to allow a change of procedure at the 1860 Democratic convention. At the beginning of 1860, 32 million "extras" stood behind the "odd stellar assortment" of political players in the sectional drama. And no moderate argument had "one-tenth the cumulative emotional impact" of John Brown...
...other team can't score on you, you can't lose. You can tie, but you can't lose." Royal's Longhorns content themselves with grinding out bite-sized chunks of yardage, and to make sure that they don't try anything foolish, he calls a fair number of plays from the bench. When in doubt, he punts. "If we can kick the ball from our 30 to their 10," he says, "that's six first downs in one play...
...this sounds foolish enough, and probably would be, were it not for Simone Signoret's 100-proof performance as the kind of woman who gets into a man's blood. She drinks too much, gambles too much, talks too much. But she is a heady dish all the same. When the schoolteacher (winningly played by Alexandra Stewart) comes to dinner, the wife purrs: "Who shares your bed? I hope you're not still a virgin at 20." A few more remarks like that and her husband has had enough of her unpredictable bitchery. "What are you trying...
...Rivera told were as sweeping as his murals: vast, colorful and complicated. They charmed women, infuriated men (Trotsky left Diego's home, bag and baggage, after one tall tale too many), and were a biographer's despair. "Who could be so discourteous," asks Biographer Wolfe, "who so foolish and dully matter-of-fact, as to disbelieve such attractive, exciting, baroquely designed, richly detailed, marvelously verisimilar yet preposterous stories, told while the painter smiled and snorted, his bulging eyes fastened directly upon...
...Visit is a very thoughful play, well-worth seeing no matter who is in it. Anyone who misses the production at the Loeb with this cast is simply foolish...