Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE ARE AS many theories as to what's wrong with Beacon Hill as there are people who watch it. And people are watching it--in droves, all the while complaining about how terrible it is. The basic problem is that the show is boring and stupid. The reasons for that are many, and as sociologically complex as one wants to make them...
...feel absolutely emotional about it because ... it is so bloody stupid. It's like trying to walk across swampland. You know where you want to get, but there are all these things to prevent your legs from moving...
...hard to understand why anyone would bother to make Smile at all-let alone with loving, modish, professional care. The movie undertakes to point out that beauty contests-in this case, the California finals of the mythical Young American Miss Pageant-are vulgar and stupid exercises that bring out the worst in everyone: sponsors, contestants, audiences. This is not exactly big news. If it were, Bert Parks would be out of the last of his jobs, since the reason that most people tune in events like the Miss America Contest is to prove their cultural superiority to the few remaining...
...Murder by Death. "The movie will have more special effects than Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist combined," claimed Truman, whose co-stars will include Peter Folk, Alec Guinness and Elsa Lanchester. Has the author of In Cold Blood finally changed his mind about thespian intelligence? "Actors are stupid, but I'm not stupid," he replied. "Anyway, this will give them a chance to carve...
...about what goes on in the marriage bed. Her mother looked at her with icy disapproval. "You've seen enough pictures and statues in your life," she replied. "Haven't you noticed that men are . . . made differently from women? You can't be as stupid as you pretend." On that subject she was, however, and the marriage was not consummated for three weeks, after which the sexual life of husband and wife virtually ceased. What Teddy Wharton-a handsome, almost excessively amiable man ten years her senior-thought of such a bloodless arrangement is not recorded...