Word: goofusization
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Macy is an ace at doing hysteria in a narrow range, and Buscemi scores as a sick goofus whom one witness IDs as "funny-lookin'--more than most people even." There's enough gore to make this a Mystery Violence Theater. After some superb mannerist films, the Coens are back in the deadpan realist territory of Blood Simple, but without the cinematic elan. Fargo is all attitude and low aptitude. Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy contempt toward people who talk and think Minnesotan. Which is, y'know, kind of a bad deal...
...critics suffer professionally from the viewpoint of the goofus bird, which flies backward so it can see where it has been. Unlike reviewers who guide their readers to new plays, movies and books, they can only reminisce about shows that have disappeared into thin air. By finding a way to remedy this built-in defect of the craft, a young (31) New Yorker named Steven H. Scheuer has built up the most widely syndicated TV feature in the U.S. press. His technique: capsule previews of the day's top viewing based on scripts, rehearsals and screenings, which he covers...
...author of the article insists on calling "goofus feathers" "goofer feathers," let's at least give credit to the originators of the name for peach fuzz. They were the famous (or should I say-more famous) team of McIntyre & Heath, whom I presume Moran & Mack tried to imitate...
...TIME may have been be-fuzzed about de-fuzzers, but not about goofer feathers. Black-face comics Mclntyre & Heath did mention "goofus feathers" in their famous act, The Ham Tree, but TIME was talking about the Moran & Mack variety. A cultivated type, they are finer and softer than goofus feathers, which come from wild peaches...
...write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes...