Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become more predominant in Dylan's work, however, he can no longer side-step lines with a snarl. For example, the bouncy style of "True Love Tends To Forget" gives him no way to sing the lines "I saw you drift into infinity and come back again" without sounding stupid. In the worst songs of the album-"True Love," "We Better Talk This Over" and "New Pony"-the lyrics fall flat, while the instrumentals and heavy back-up vocals in the choruses compound the injury by making the tunes well-night indistinguishable from a thousand pop-rock songs...
...sketching the enigmatic capital letters in the air and mouthing them repeatedly ad nauseam. And his labored attempts to achieve a smile should have stayed in vaudeville. Like Falstaff in Henry IV, Malvolio hasn't learned a thing by the end of the play, but he is not utterly stupid. Yet Dishy makes him seem more slow-witted than Sir Andrew...
...vague, perhaps unmeasurable feeling that, after all, Watergate was not all that bad, that its catastrophic results were out of all proportion to the wrongs that were done. It is conceivable, goes the reasoning, that he was only defending friends in the White House who had done stupid things, gone too far in their zeal. Or perhaps his only mistake was in getting caught...
...encouraged. Close Encounters of the Third Kind--A major disappointment. A totally boring, over-long, overblown saga of our first communication with extraterrestrials (actually, it's not the first, as anyone from Jablib, Wisconsin, will tell you). Neato special effects, and a nice job by Richard Dreyfuss in a stupid part, but it should have been two hours shorter, and that goo-goo eyed little kid has got to go. Best scene: Dreyfuss's interrogation by--that's right--Francois Truffaut, who should have known better...
...much; then that women don't like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they say that I secretly like men?but then that men don't like me! I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes...