Word: saphead
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Buster Keaton Festival. At the Orson Welles: The Navigator, Friday through Sunday at 5, 7:30 and 9:45, with The Saphead...
Nabokov has become shameless in his attempts to control (and bamboozle) readers in these introductions. This time, without naming him, he gives particular hell to Critic Andrew Field -"a desperate saphead in the throes of a nightmare examination"-who had the effrontery to read Glory in Russian and beat the author to a published criticism...
Real People. This kind of pitch, with its view of the consumer as saphead, is still afl too prevalent. But, increasingly, as admen are trying to break through the CEBUS barrier, the old commercial is being replaced with the truly new brand of ad with miracle ingredients some honesty, some humor, packaged with meticulous care. It might be called the uncommercial, and it has transformed the viewer into a consumer of the pitch as much as of the product...
...should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet, to discover that . . . my home . . . my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels . . . my locomotives and cars . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead who had no conception of where he is or with what surrounded." Last week, after six years of sidestepping sapheads, the executors of the estate had found a solution. The castle and grounds they sold to the State of Connecticut as a public park and bird sanctuary; the CN&GW they...
...home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead...