Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
Even so, Schlesinger's activities last week got a raking over from United Features Columnist Henry J. Taylor. Taylor had phoned Schlesinger to ask whether his outside writing was not in conflict with the executive order. Somewhere along the line, Arthur called Taylor an idiot, and said: "It is obvious to me that I write for people who have higher intellectual qualities than you possess." Finally, Schlesinger hung up on Taylor. And in his column, Taylor hung one on Schlesinger. "Any citizen,'' he wrote, "who thinks for one minute that the risks in general from the Schlesinger...
...Idiot.""I wasn't scared," recalls Nicklaus. "I wasn't supposed to beat him anyhow, so why should I be scared? I just told myself, 'Most people get flustered when Palmer does this and start bogeying. Don't be an idiot. Remember, you've played twelve holes and you're one up-that's all that counts. Just play your own game. Palmer can bogey them too.' " On the par-three, 161-yd. 13th hole, Palmer did just that: he underclubbed himself, hit the green 40 ft. short...
...tells the story of the illegitimate teen-aged daughter (Rita Tushingham) of a village idiot and a good-time shirley (Dora Bryan). Father is long since na poo; mother and daughter drift through dreary digs in Manchester, flying by night when the rent comes round. Mother sops it up all night, sleeps it off all day, rather likes her daughter when she's nothing worse to do. The girl, given a wit too many and a skin too few, is so hungry for affection that she bites her mother's head off 30 times a day. Grows back...
...wouldn't want to belong. I think the last crop they let in is just not up to standard. There are others on the outside worth more than many on the inside-André Breton, Paulhan, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre if he weren't such an idiot, such a strange, bizarre monster...