Word: rubes
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...helps too that he has written the wittiest, busiest screenplay since Moonstruck, and that his three stars do their very best screen work. Costner's surly sexiness finally pays off here; abrading against Sarandon's earth-mama geniality and Robbins' rube egocentricity, Costner strikes sparks. Aided by a snazzy red-neck roadhouse bar-band score, Bull Durham is a long, smart kiss to baseball that should last longer than three days. How about all season? Wouldn't it be poetic justice if Ron Shelton were the movies' Mr. October...
...fact, no one dreamed up the Rube Goldberg system that now determines the nominees in each party; it evolved on its own, guided only by the law of unintended consequences. And no, the complex and arcane system is not good for democracy; successive attempts at reform have created the illusion of popular selection, not the reality. Most of the electorate is excluded from participating until a handful of voters in unrepresentative states winnows the field by at least half. If a Third World nation had devised such a nominating system and imposed it on its people, Americans might logically conclude...
...Believe us, extracurrics aren't pretty. The only reason we do them is because we didn't get to the Coop fast enough at the beginning of our first term freshman year, and all the textbooks were sold out. After that, academics were hopeless. So don't be a rube--get to the Coop early, and study hard...
...resist some invisible gale, with old Frank Woolworth huddled like a crazed alchemist in its tower and a dragon made of dollar bills (the Spirit of Capitalism -- geddit?) waving its creaking neck from the roof, is quite a creation. But either way, one has the sense of an exaggerated rube's-eye view willfully prolonged. It reminds one that however "elitist" economy and wit may seem, vulgarity soon palls. Grooms' work is not folk sculpture -- it is too self-regarding for that -- but it enacts the illusion of folksiness. One suspects he might not know what...
...side-by-side stadiums for the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. The structures are playful siblings, not identical twins, the forms clearly modern but vaguely ancient. What Tange has called "two huge comma shapes out of alignment" reminds us how satisfying form following function can be. Instead of the usual Rube Goldberg arena system of numbered entrances and exit ramps, the single wide mouths of the Olympic stadiums show themselves unequivocally...