Word: half-wit
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...Baily plies millions of viewers with his simple charm. When Brackett cuts abruptly to a commercial, both guitar and Baily are unceremoniously replaced with a garish sneaker advertisement. The spell is suddenly broken and the effect is undeniable: we realize we've been played, effortlessly manipulated by a half-wit and a cheesy soundtrack...
...voters to amend the city charter so that he could win a third term, and he stayed grumpily aloof from the election, pronouncing a pox on all his would-be successors. Said he: "Between the three of them, if you scrambled their brains, you wouldn't get a half-wit...
...excellent Rossellini retrospective at Harvard-Epworth continues with Stromboli, and Currier House's Fellini series offers La Strada [The Road, 1956), the table of a half-wit peasant girl (Giulietta Masina) sold into slavery and gradually driven mad, with Anthony Quinn's and Richard Basehart's finest performances, and Fellini Satyricon as a Halloween treat (or trick...
...opening-night audience sat in stunned silence, then broke into shouts of enthusiasm. They called for Composer Floyd and for Director Frank Corsaro. With Baritone Julian Patrick as George, Tenor Robert Moulson as the doomed half-wit Lennie, and Soprano Carol Bayard as the ranch-house temptress who teases Lennie once too often, Of Mice and Men seems uniquely American. Like Steinbeck's depression-depressed characters, Floyd's opera has calluses on its hands and hot blood in its heart. It will probably be around a long time...
While Sheraf Stewart is off tending to his wife, who seems to be in the throes of a breech delivery, the Fonda gang revenge themselves by hanging the half-wit from a rafter. Gentle James the lawman then takes them all on, High Noon style, in the now classic sneak-shoot through the silent town while frightened eyes peer from behind shuttered windows...