Word: nincompoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malapropistic constable (a type better managed in the Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing); and so is the clowning tapster Pompey of Rex Everhart, who has been doing such roles for the AST off and on since its first season. Gene Nye turns the disreputable Froth into a stuttering nincompoop that is vastly overdone; measure. Mr. Nye, please...
...disaster for the old co-star of the Dick Van Dyke Show. She plays an inadvertent career girl, jilted by the rounder she put through medical school, and working as a "gofer" at a Minneapolis TV station. Her bosses, a drunken clown of a news director and a narcissistic nincompoop of an anchorman, do an injustice to even the worst of local TV news...
...Nincompoops. He might have run again in 1970 despite everything were it not for the rapidly failing health of Mrs. McCormack, 85. The Speaker has been spending much of his spare time nursing her. That burden, together with his age and his devotion to duty, may have become too heavy. By announcing his retirement in May, he gave his Boston allies time to organize a primary campaign against independent candidates who are seeking his congressional seat. "I didn't want to hold off," he said, "and let some nincompoop get the nomination...