Word: toothlessness
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...Toothless Watchdog. When one of Nader's sleuths sought information that he believed should be public property, FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon angrily ejected him from his office. John Schulz, 29, a fledgling lawyer from Yale who is the patriarch of Nader's neophytes, had requested a copy of a monthly FTC memorandum detailing complaints made to the commission. Dixon told him that the document was for FTC use only. After slamming his door on Schulz, Dixon threatened to bar all of Nader's investigators from the building-an unenforceable fiat, since the FTC building is legally...
...judgment is severe. They argue that the FTC's billing as guardian of consumer rights convicts the commission of misleading advertising-one of the principal sins it is supposed to eliminate. With only 1,170 employees and a paltry $16 million budget, the commission, they charge, is a toothless watchdog with a sorry record of too little protection too late...
...Toothless Answer. Attempts to tighten the absurdly loose laws have repeatedly been defeated, largely due to the efforts of the 1,000,000-member National Rifle Association. Two years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such...
Enderby, 45, a flabby, balding and toothless bachelor, is the poet as anti-stereotype. The wind that blows on his Aeolian harp comes out mostly as stomach gas. Belching and backfiring, he sits on his toilet seat day after monotonous day composing a narrative poem about the Minotaur. Yet, as manuscript slowly fills the bathtub, Enderby is a happy and fulfilled man. Living off dividends and tiny royalties, he really needs "nothing except more talent...
Manifestly, Winner believed that throughout the film he was courageously exposing the underside of affluence. Actually, What's 'Isname simply knocks tired old targets in a weary new way, with a kind of tasteless, toothless satire that gums where it should bite...