Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes ordered by the studio are mostly stupid but not disastrous. Even in the maimed state in which it has been released, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is the richest, most exciting American film so far this year. There are moments and whole sequences here that stand among the best Peckinpah has ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film...
Freshman would not build up hopes and expectations at the end of their first year, only to have these hopes shot down by a pointless quota system. And the stupid sham of House selectivity would be ended. Surely Harvard is a selective enough place already without having to make its students go through other processes of application, admission and rejection within the institution...
...slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been a white slave), and an occasional charitable impulse. Schwarz-Bart indicts the stupid, parasitic values of a colonial culture; it is not necessary for him to deny the humanity which makes any kind of culture, no matter how reprehensible, possible...
...pigs. Talk about ethics is humbug, meant only for the stupid. Life has no meaning other than to satisfy one's appetite for food and women. There is no soul...
...Watergate, Connally phoned his congratulations but avoided mentioning his own political plans. Next day he mulled over the speech, then made up his mind. "Watergate is a sordid mess," he explained at a press conference in a Houston bank, where he is a director. "But it was a silly, stupid, illegal act performed by individuals. The Republican Party didn...