Word: idiotically
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...insights can only be shared and understood by our members, our kind. Unless one is a Pentecostalist, an Orthodox Jew, a woman, an Anglo-Saxon, a black, a yogi, a youth, an "ethnic," one whose consciousness has been shaped in a particular way, he or she remains an idiot, in the original meaning of the word, an ignorant outsider...
...SONG IS a tour-de-force, a masterpiece of phrasing, word play, and narrative. When the singer claims in the chorus that he's "Going to Acapulco/Gonna have some fun," we no more believe him than we believed the narrator of "Idiot Wind" on Blood on the Tracks when he insisted that he'd been "double-crossed now/For the very last time/And now I'm finally free!" In each case, Dylan enunciates a single word so as to give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have...
...TIME cover story on Mrs. Finley. Anyone who could endure 34 years married to that pompous, miserable, acid-tongued idiot deserves recognition...
...stadium hot dogs, is highly adulterated. By his own witness, he is a man with a heart as big as the Astrodome. To be sure, Leo is of the Vince Lombardi persuasion: "Show me a good loser in professional sports," he declares, "and I'll show you an idiot." But having thumbed sportsmanship out of the game, the Lip spends the rest of his book atoning for his early excesses-by introducing some worse ones...
What a gag like this lacks in novelty Director Blake Edwards can make up for with the trim velocity of his timing, the precision engineering of each comic contretemps. Then there is Peter Sellers as Clouseau. This idiot-savant gumshoe is one of Sellers' best creations, a creature of impervious stupidity and unyielding, if ever tenuous, dignity. Clouseau can vacuum up the entire contents of a hotel room, drive trucks into a swimming pool, inundate his quarters with bubble bath, and still react with the mere suggestion of embarrassment, as if he had just sneezed a little too loudly...