Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, I've only summarized. But it's stupid to give reasons for comic genius, when you can give a snatch of the comedy itself. I don't have space even to mention the superb Shakespeare bit--easily the most sustained piece of comedy in the show. But surely the burden of my message is clear. Beyond the Fringe is great. Beyond the Fringe is terrific. Beyond the Fringe is the show not to miss this year...
...village called Fontana Liri, 50 miles southeast of Rome. He apprenticed in his father's carpentry shop and later took a degree in surveying at the University of Rome, graduating just in time for the Germans to put him to work making military maps. "It was all so stupid." he says. "We were still doing maps of Sicily when the Americans were in Florence...
...Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously think...
...Gaulle has little faith in diplomats. "They are only all right in consistently good weather," he says. "As soon as it rains, they drown in each drop." As for the military mind: "The worst calamity, after a stupid general, is an intelligent...
...second thoughts, most of them will decide to scream. Taken entire, Yojimbo is an appalling assault on the human animal and all his works. Of the scores of characters in the film, only five can pretend to be human beings. What's more, three of the five are stupid and cowardly, and the best of them, the noblest instance of mankind that Kurosawa can discover, is the mercenary samurai-a professional killer. Everybody else in the picture is lecherous, treacherous, venal or criminally insane...