Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to repeal Proportional Representation. To Carson the Civic Association is hypocritical and elitist. He hinted broadly in answer to an opening question that the CCA was responsible for an electoral system "which becomes a lottery at a certain stage . . . . I don't think the people are stupid, but there is little or no grasp of issues--if people are operating under a system they don't understand, it is no good." (The people of Cambridge seem to have misunderstood Proportional Representation for twenty years...
...Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches." See CINEMA, Love in Kazansas...
...film's first scene, the teen-aged hero (Warren Beatty) and heroine (Natalie Wood), a couple of nice kids from Kazansas, are shown in cinema's stock petting situation. Later that night the heroine's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, smarmy, gabby, hypocritical, vicious and even fat old slob of a mother (Audrey Christie), a living list of everything lousy that has ever been said about womanhood, reads her daughter a puritan's primer of sexual misconceptions: "Boys don't respect a girl they can go all the way with. Anyway, no nice girl has those...
Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches: "Son, don't you go too far with that girl. If she gets pregnant, you'll have to marry her and then you couldn't go to Yale. What you need-heh, heh-is another kind of girl on the side...
...meaning, they include 200,000 quotations that draw on sources as diverse as Variety, Lingerie Merchandising, and TIME (probably the most frequently quoted magazine), along with "pungent, lively remarks" by 14,000 modern notables from Winston Churchill to Mickey Spillane. The old edition brushed off goof as "a ridiculous, stupid person." Now. in amplification, Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as complaining that someone "made a goof." Elizabeth Taylor broadens sick by speaking of "a room smelling rather of sick." Ethel Merman says, "Two shows a day drain a girl," and Willie Mays warns, "Hit too many homers and people start puffing...