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...Hoffman has played Zapo as a complete childish nincompoop, a character interpretation which makes many of the incidents and many of Zapo's lines seem simply stupid, instead of ingenuous or funny. Nonetheless, his opening scene is delightful, and M. and Mme. Tapon sitting under an umbreila watching the battle is another very nice scene...

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: Albee Play Opens at Bostonian Hotel | 7/14/1964 | See Source »

Just because we still like Jack doesn't mean we're idiotic enough to vote for any old Democratic nincompoop that comes along, be he backed by a Geraldini or a Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1962 | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...nincompoop...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: My Poll | 10/18/1962 | See Source »

Terrible Terry. Advise and Consent left the nation dangling in perilous circumstance. The Russians had just landed on the moon and ominously summoned the U.S. to Geneva for a conference. The death of the President had thrust command upon Harley M. Hudson, the harmless nincompoop of a Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Lode | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Dandin (which Moliere himself played, and whose name has become a generic term for a nincompoop), George Bolton is sufficiently successful. His un-stage-English accent is appropriate for one who is supposed to be incapable of acquiring even a veneer of upper-class manner and speech. But he does not capture enough of Dandin's vanity. The role is modeled on the stock Pantalone of Italian comedy, and Bolton wears Pantalone's traditional long beard and long black cloak...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Moliere's 'Dandin' | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

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