Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this would be an "ugly choice." In fact, our current policy is doing very well; it makes it clear to Latin American countries just what the consequences of Communism are, and they are coming around to our point of view faster this way than if we made a stupid martyr out of Castro...
...waiting getaway car driven by members of Jose Miro Cardona's anti-Castro Revolutionary Council. Several days later, the four and their coach, who had also slipped away, were flown to Miami, where they asked asylum. Said one: "We were just tired of being involved in the stupid struggle that has destroyed Cuba...
...equally stupid on both sides." The roles that remain are scarce and sometimes harmful to the actor, and many Negro actors can find no work at all. "Qualified people are not even allowed to audition," says Diahann Carroll, star of the Broadway musical, No Strings, which owes its faint critical success entirely...
...cowboy fugitive rides, tugs, curses and coaxes his horse Whisky up and up through cruel ridge country toward the hoped-for haven of an immense stand of forest. The machines close in again, but a rifle can still foil a helicopter and a rifle butt can stun a stupid, pursuing jail guard...
...sheriff (Walter Matthau) who heads the manhunt is not stupid, but a humane and humorous man who admires his adversary's gallantry at the same time that he pities his folly. Matthau is an actor of magnetic presence and great comic flair. In this film he looks like a young Robert Benchley and sounds almost as amusing. In a role that calls for him to be someone, rather than to act something, Kirk Douglas is totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture...