Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trigger-tempered troopers mauled women spectators, roughed up the French ski coach, hustled newsmen off to the jug for nothing more serious than asking stupid questions. They really mussed up the hairdos of three inebriated U.S. Olympians who borrowed the car of a French sweater manufacturer (without telling him), drove it the wrong way down a one-way street (without a license), and had the bad sense to shout "Dirty Nazi swine!" when they got arrested...
...take her to the park where it's so cold you can't even unbutton her blouse." But there is really little difference between the young Pole and his older nemesis. "You're just like him," the woman tells the youth, "only half his age, weaker, and more stupid." And still she makes love to the boy. It is here-in the film's negativistic conclusion--that Polanski shows' his true affinities. His style is that of Antonioni, Fellini, or Truffaut; his art is emphatically free of his ethnic (or political) surroundings...
...Stupid Samson. No fundamentalist, Staack constantly relates archaeological findings to Scriptural passages, he believes that the divine revelation coming to man in the Bible is expressed within the limitations of a historical frame work. Thus he violently opposes the "glorification" of Biblical figures that commonly takes place in Sunday school teaching. "Look at the use God makes of humans," he says. "Moses was hotheaded, but God loved him and used him. Stupid Samson was found useful; so was cruel Joshua. Throughout the Scriptures, real people are used by God -not people who have been placed on an artificially high level...
...time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved by almost anyone with 15 minutes and a pencil. "I would look like a fool, I have never been to school" constitutes a rhyme, but it is a rhyme Menotti shares with the composer of a pop song called Stupid Cupid that was big last year...
...pretty pullets with soft cooing. "Chicken behavior is not too different from human behavior," says Dr. Baeumer fondly. "We, too, compete for women, food and the best nesting places. When we consider the chickens' richly organized instinctive life, their memory and their capabilities, we must admit it is stupid to talk about 'the stupid...