Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most important, Mann's treatment of the unconsummated affair of man and boy was a metaphor for Europe's decaying society. But Visconti takes the veneer and calls it furniture. With infinite tedium, he pores over every facet of Tadzio's Botticelli visage; with stupid distortion, he makes the boy, played by Bjorn Andresen, a flirt whose eyes flash a come-on to his helpless elder, like some midnight cowboy off the Via Veneto. He even concocts an elaborate bordello scene in which Aschenbach is shown as a heterosexual failure-a moment that proves as barren...
What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...
...develop ideas about its subject. It lacks any stylistic will to lay things open, to cut apart fictional characters or real societies so we can see better what they are made of. The Cuban Revolution, for example, is presented as the hero's "revenge on the stupid Cuban bourgeoisie-everything I don't want to be." It has no direct presence in his life; he is always buffered from it by this sense or that feeling. Even when the Cuban legal system intervenes in his life, and puts him on trial for rape, Alea presents the whole situation through...
...suit was slight, and, at first, the University did not seem eager to respond to the latest drownings. Henry H. Cutler, Harvard Real Estate Manager, told reporters on the Monday following the drownings that filling in the pond-or putting a fence around the lot-would be "pretty stupid...
Well, I don't know, it's-some people have called it stupid, and some people have predicted that I was headed for oblivion. What was the other thing...