Word: ugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy drive on the police force, Fosdick was told by his chief that unless he married, he would be axed along with all the other bachelors. Since a "scientific aptitude test" proved Detective Fosdick too stupid for any other job, he grudgingly married his hatchet-faced girl friend Prudence ("ugh!") Pimpleton.* Abner, true to his pledge, had to follow suit. However, he was so confident a miracle would save him that he did not even bother to get out of bed on the morning when Daisy Mae breathlessly held him to his promise (see cut). But this time, no matter...
Brando's sleek, well-fed countenance clashes with his role of a down-trodden, land-hungry peasant. His sullen, unchanging expression and aggravating yes-no-ugh dialogue gives an impression of blank stupidity, and his occasional philosophical pronunciamentos seem completely out of character. Brando's Zapata could never be the leader of 40,000 men, the symbol of a social movement, or the hero of Mexican folklore--in short, he could not be the real Zapata or even a believable facsimile. And with its central figure reduced to such a nonentity, the tale of Emiliano Zapata becomes a trail...
Thrown off balance by having to prepare for, then recover from, the Michigan game, Dartmouth tied Holy Cross in its opener and lost to Michigan, Penn, and (ugh) Lehigh. Harvard, which has no Clayton and no Tuss, also has won no games, having been slaughtered by Columbia, Cornell, and Army. But Dartmouth still has its Clayton and its McLaughry. It should explode this afternoon...