Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a big Hollywood star. With one film he more than doubled his movie audience in the U.S.-Kwai will probably be seen by at least 50 million Americans, and stands to make more than $20 million. By his intricate, strongly moving portrayal of a British colonel at once stupid and heroic. Guinness repealed the casual popular impression that he is merely a sort of Stan Laurel for the intellectuals, and revealed himself as a dramatic actor of imposing skill and large imagination. U.S. moviemakers were so impressed that last month the Motion Picture Academy named Alec Guinness the best...
...Depression; it was then that he became a Democrat, an allegiance that causes considerable head-shaking on the part of his 90-year-old mother, widowed for 25 years. "Franklin is such a brilliant fellow," she says, "I don't see how he can be so stupid on political matters." Comments Fry: "Mother would vote for the Devil on the Republican ticket-and frequently...
...Dodgers," said Red Smith, "have been the liveliest topic of conversation in the training camps this spring. To put it simply, at least some of the Dodger executive family are assiduously courting the California press, a wise policy, and wish the New York writers would get lost, which is stupid. They feel they no longer need the New York press, and have gone out of their way to make this clear...
...even more caution and uncertainty in consumers. But newspapers that tailor the news to this formula help neither the economy nor themselves. Says Tennessean Editor Coleman A. Harwell: "How can we pretend there's no unemployment when people are talking about it? If we pretend, we look stupid...
...actually he hates his father and loathes religion). Another makes it apparent that he charged an almost impregnable position alone because he thought it would look good on his record. A foolish, dull-eyed boy vaulted a gate and opened it under hailing fire because he was too stupid to imagine being shot...