Word: lumpishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prominent among the innumerable faults of this lumpish production is some of the most embarrassing acting of the year. Pleasence and, surprisingly, Brynner are both amusing, but Danny Kaye performs as if he were addressing a fund-raising rally for UNICEF. As for Katharine Hepburn, she has long since shrouded herself in her mannerisms. If anyone parodied her as outrageously as she parodies herself, she could easily sue for libel...
...meaning should be attributed to his art. He dismisses such suggestions with the same scorn that he once made use of when a clubwoman asked him what butterflies were for. Nevertheless, certain deductions can be drawn from Nabokov's writing. In Bend Sinister, he composed a picture of crude, lumpish evil-in-power, and he put Yeats' much quoted "rough beast" into a Bolshevik or Nazi Bethlehem. Thus Prospero-Nabokov always knew Caliban, whether he was known as Hitler or Stalin or by some other name...
This film, based on Gerold Frank's nonfiction bestseller and shot mostly on location in Boston, confidently supplies the answer. He is Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there are moments when he turns into another self, a compulsive, soft-spoken psychopath who can kill at the drop of a door latch...
...acre site; the U.S. pavilion's balloon design was to have been echoed by surrounding pavilions, notably those of France and Japan. American Architects Sam Brody and Lewis Davis, working with Tange, designed the experimental complex. "Until now," says Brody, "air structures have been rather lumpish affairs on the ground. We wanted to introduce the airborne silhouette...
...indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon." The lumpish lawman not only buys the story, but comes along on the gold rush. Ultimately, the thief heads for Mexico with the loot, cheating every-one-the sheriff, the girl, the U.S. Cavalry and the viewer...