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...least 2 million Americans are now aware of the Ministry of Silly Walks. College students are finding new meanings for the word stupid, and old ladies may even be getting ideas about beating up kids. What is this pernicious influence, bordering on a cult, that is now sweeping the U.S.? The word is Monty Python. Five roopy young Englishmen, who methodically take the world apart each week in a series of sketches mysteriously called Monty Python 's Flying Circus, have conquered the U.S. air waves. The Pythons are getting the kind of following that a presidential candidate might envy...
...were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They soon enlisted a new recruit, Minnesota-born Terry Gilliam, whose animated graphics are a favorite device for closing a sketch. "We worked intuitively," explains Cleese of those early days. "We went looking for stupid things. We just wanted to pick a few flowers...
THERE ARE a few funny reversals of cliches about medieval movies, but these fall into two categories: the "it must have looked funny on the drawing board because it sure doesn't look funny on the screen"; and the simply stupid. In the latter category, the knights build a sort of Trojan Horse to enter a castle and then forget to hide themselves within it. In the former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing...
Because these groups failed in their attempt to challenge the crown, the absolutist government in Russia remained absolute. Pipes thinks the peasants had the potential strength to succeed where the others had failed but that they lost the chance because they were politically unaware. Pipes is angry with the "stupid" peasant because he was too lazy to organize as a class to challenge the serfdom that was oppressing him. For this reason, the peasant was "ill-suited for any political system except an authoritarian or anarchistic one," and he let the opportunities of the intelligentsiarun revolution pass...
...cannot understand why no one has commented on the simple fact that the U.S. would have been spared more than $200 billion, more than 50,000 lives, and all the present tragic and so stupid horror of evacuation of Americans, and these poor wretches to whom we owe nothing in any way, shape or form, had our allied air power been permitted to proceed with all-out pinpoint bombing of the Viet Cong's power and supply depots, thus bringing them to their knees and terminating the action long before the year...