Word: moronism
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...cover story [April 15] was not about us. And if it was not about us -the city's total population less 200 or so 20th Century-Fox playmates-it was not about London. Cathy McGowan is not "London's favorite dolly," but London's most unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated on the aspects of the play most meaningful for the 20th century (as distinct from 20th Century-Fox). Those who converse in the "flip jargon" have...
...vacation began to pick up. In Seville's magnificent bullring, Spain's three leading toreros, El Cordobes, Paco Camino and El Viti, all bypassed Princess Grace, offered their hats and first bulls to Jackie in homage. In response, she hastily dispatched a U.S. embassy aide to nearby Moron Airbase for three Kennedy half-dollars, which she slipped inside the hats before returning them. Though she turned away when the picadors lanced the bulls, she watched each pass of the bulls with fascination. "This is the first time she has really understood bullfighting," said a friend. Jackie...
...Through a tragic error," ruled Judge Richard S. Heller for the New York Court of Claims last week, Prisoner Dennison was wrongly classified as a low-grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with...
...SHOW. Styled after the sappy smile of Mad magazine's trademark moron, Alfred E. Neuman, this revue tickles where it might have stung. But its cast still reaches the funny bone, satirizing everything from soap-flake operas to hi-fi nuts...
Thanks to its three-man, two-woman cast, the show is funnier than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing...