Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Bronx burning themselves out, and horripilating parlors of decadence, catering to the most specialized of the perverse. Much of the rest of the nation regards New York as a cautionary tale, the urban exemplar of everything that can go wrong: poverty, pollution, crime, racial conflict, corrupt and stupid government, dirt, traffic, immorality and, no doubt, sinful pride...
...STRANGE, but the Pink Panther is a very controversial animal. Sample a random number of reasonably intelligent people on what they think of these stupid Blake Edwards movies and you'll get replies ranging from, "I sleep through them" to "What wonderful pictures! Real fun and unpretentious, you know?" Although more boneheaded "auteurist" cinema scholars--Blake Edwards fans all--could probably give you a shot-by-shot analysis of this unsubtle director's technique, most critics will find it hard to be objective about Revenge of the Pink Panther. So much depends on one's mood, the setting, the company...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, on the goals of young European directors like himself: "We want to find a form that doesn't empty audiences' heads and make them stupid...
...success has been good to them, it has also made them a little stale. The magazine is nowhere near as funny as it once was--unless, of course, it's just that its readers are older. The things that were funny when you were 15 frequently seem a little stupid when you're 20. The Ivy League jokesters, it seemed, needed a new challenge, and true to the traditions of American enterprise, they decided to pull together all their collegiate humor and stuck it in a movie...
Regarding inflation, our politicians are incredibly stupid, greedy and truth-hiding. With a budget deficit of more than $52 billion, the Fed is pouring a billion play dollars into the economy each week. What else can these no-brainers expect? The solution: cut out the fat, fraud, reckless giveaway programs and psychotic spending, and the budget could be balanced...