Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every two years a commissioner is appointed to oversee its structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...
...movie is silliest when show-biz celebrities parade on and off the stage as if it were Impressionists Night at the Improv. Sinatra gets marital advice from Humphrey Bogart, rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions...
...song with lots of choreography," Henderson says at a particularly romantic moment. Searching through Grump's office in the dark, the characters happen upon...a nine-piece band. When Jeannie Ality reveals that she is in fact Prince Spaghetti, the response is automatic: "A man dressed as a woman? Silliest thing I've ever heard...
...left- winger, has a thumb on the scales: his inmate is penitent, as innocent of spirit as Candide. Moreover, the police are widely known to have tainted the evidence, but admitting that would inconvenience powerful people, so injustice prevails. Much of the dialogue is barely digested statistics; the silliest, mouthed by a reformist young black woman, argues that essentially every male under 30 is a criminal, so no one should be prosecuted. Despite such balderdash, the storytelling is intense and the acting splendid, especially by Robert Patterson as the prisoner...
...silliest pretense is that the Boy Scouts do not now number many present or future atheists and homosexuals among their members. Curran was gay and a scout. Elliott Welsh evolved agnostic views shortly after leaving the scouts. Their participation in scouting did not keep them from choosing their lives and values, nor did their participation destroy scouting. What is most troubling in the Boy Scouts' new emphasis on privacy is the hint that the group serves as a retreat for parents who dislike the diverse and tolerant world of today. But that is the world their children will grow...