Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stupid, awaiting its detonation...
...them into federations of small colleges with a student body of about 450 and a faculty of 50. Schools and overgrown universities, however, were only part of the problem. In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, he wrote: "People have a right to be crazy, stupid or arrogant. It is our specialty as human beings. Our mistake is to arm anybody with collective power. Anarchy is the only safe polity...
...structures they build. He shows us what those who accept such a society deserve: all the kisses that their self-justified, pretty little wives can give them, a plot of ground they can rest their tired hams on and raise the children that will be as undeniably stupid as themselves. And Peckinpah also shows what happens to those who sense that something is wrong, but can't yet formulate an alternative: they become like Ace and his son Junior...
...years "without knowing anything about art:" Yelena, his completely provocative and utterly directionless young wife: Sonya, his fresh, intelligent young daughter, stuck in the country for the rest of her days; Vanya himself, who could have been "a Dostoevsky or a Schopenhauer" if not for 25 years of "stupid, dirty provincial life;" and Dr. Astrov, who despite his intelligence and energy will sink--with the help of the vodka bottle--into Vanya's vulgarity and hopelessness after another 10 years...
...result of all this is diverting but far from consistent, even in its craziness. There are frequent longueur, and too many conversations about the meaning of revolution that are stupid even by Leone standards. Unfortunately, no one is likely to ever get as much fun out of his movies as Leone himself...