Word: moronically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently describes himself as a bleeder and a firm believer "that easy writ ing makes hard reading." The hack is the kind of man who dashes off a few mysteries before breakfast and boasts of popularizing Shakespeare so that he will be "comprehensible to the veriest moron ... to even a rock fan." He is also a painter with a worldwide reputation...
...French I have ever heard, his eyes run, and he is not at all impressive." Montgomery, he thought, "was small, wonderfully conceited and the best soldier in this war." Harry Hopkins "was like a pilot fish for a shark [F.D.R.]," and King George "is just a grade above a moron, poor little fellow...
...Andrew, the silly suitor, David Rounds is undeniably funny; but turning Andrew into a mere moron is a superficial solution to what ought to be a much more complex characterization. At the performance I saw, the regular Maria, Roberta Maxwell, was replaced by her understudy, Sarah Peterson, who played with all the spirit and assurance of one who had been a servant in the household for years...
...methods are not subtle. Troy hurls epithets like "moron," "featherbrain" and "cream puff" at his targets. A recent Troy article on graft in the awarding of state building contracts reeks with outrage: "Spending a weekend reading the transcript from the Oklahoma County grand jury is like being trapped in a sewer for two days. Pustules of corruption sear your senses and you search in vain for some escape from the smothering putrefaction...
...stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by their straw boss, respond with a nice arrangement of Cole Porter's I Get a Kick out of You; that ex-Football Tackier Alex Karras, on hand to play a homicidal moron, gets in a fight with a horse and fells it with a single roundhouse blow; that Cleavon Little, as the heroic sheriff, has saddlebags by Gucci...