Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that's just the titillation. Imagine being Lemmon's buddy, Tony Curtis, changing from your girl's costume and convincing Marilyn Monroe--voluptuous, innocent, stupid Marilyn--that you are a rich, kindly, and impotent millionaire. Naturally, Marilyn insists on trying her hand at curing you. ("Oh, you play water polo?" she asks, batting her eyelashes. "Isn't that dangerous?" "Yes," you answer, "I've lost two ponies out from under...
...actors, who struck me as a competent lot. Joan DeWeese, as Blanche, acted the final mad scene with aloof dignity. It is Mr. Murray's fault, I think, that she never revealed her sensuality, her nymphomaniacal craving after Stanley Kowalski. Mitch Ryan, as Kowalski, was splendidly grubby, violent, and stupid, but he too never quite seemed the sexually potent animal he should have been. His movements around the stage were sometimes those of a normal human being, sometimes those of an ape, and sometimes those of a wind-up toy on the blink. Mrs. Kowalski, Blanche's sister, was fetchingly...
...Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops, the onetime carpenter was elected to the ceremonial post of President with a bigger vote (99.58%) than Hitler ever...
Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has done many harsh acts and some stupid ones in his 30 years in power. But perhaps none has ever matched the deed he was accused of last week. The Organization of American States listened to detailed evidence that Trujillo personally plotted last month's nearly successful assassination attempt against Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. The OAS found the case persuasive enough to vote 19 to 0 (with the Dominicans and the Venezuelans abstaining) to judge the evidence...
...Soviet 'spaceship', circling the globe at this very minute, and that the Soviets may very shortly attempt to return this man-alive-to earth." Major General John B. Medaris, the U.S. Army's former missile chief, suspected the same thing. The Russians are "not so stupid," he guessed, as to put up a man-carrying satellite with no man in it. Neither Jackson nor Medaris gave evidence to back their hunches, but students at Nasson College in Springvale, Me. listened to the satellite's radio and claimed to hear a jumbled voice "like Donald Duck with...