Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
They're not the rube, for on the tube, was cinema verity...
...used to believe that the self-parodying ineptness of films like this one was the antidote supplied by thoughtful producers to counteract their poisonous ideas. But the appalling example of Walking Tall is still before us. At least one preview audience actually cheered this urban variant on that rube farce. So let the matter be stated as forcefully as possible: Death Wish is a meretricious film-in its curious lack of feeling even for innocent victims of crime, in its hysterical exaggerations of an undeniable problem, and especially in its brazen endorsement of violence as a solution to violence...
...third at the Santa Anita Derby several weeks earlier. When there seemed to be a chance to narrow down the Derby field in the Wood Memorial in New York in mid-April, that race had to be split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...
...experience packing duffel bags, Bunting gets a great deal into fewer than 250 pages. He has an old-fashioned social novelist's knack of sketching characters and setting scenes. But he also puts a fresh wrinkle in the old tale of a cold sophisticate getting burned by the rube. Yankee versions customarily make the rube goodhearted. But Adams and Giles both represent a failure of what Americans like to think of as an egalitarian society. Adams' understated, institutionalized arrogance and Giles' blustering, rude arrogance are not different in substance. Only in Style. −R.Z. Sheppard