Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the bargain. Keaton is bright, hung up, a little tentative about sex, a maniac about keeping the house in order. Once, Gould claims, he got up to go to the bathroom at night and came back to find that she had made the bed. The movie is similarly witless throughout. There are many attempted jokes about marriage counselors, institutes for sexual behavior and breasts. Norman
Ronald Reagan is the prototype American politician of the '70s: mindless, witless, positionless and worthless...
Harris, 28, has been singing professionally on the country-folk circuit for about ten years, most of the time for little more than $10 a night. But hers was the land of music most likely to be drowned out by the loud sound and often witless lyrics of the past decade. Lately the public has grown more easy with loneliness and love gone wrong as celebrated in country music. Now, with the release of her LP Pieces of the Sky (Reprise), Emmylou Harris seems about to swim into the rich mainstream of popular music. As Emmylou sums it up: "After...
...blame also lies elsewhere. For the past 15 years, every literate person in Europe and the U.S. has been molded by the incessant pressure of propaganda about art as a commodity: by museums which flaunt their directorial machismo by advertising the prices of their million-dollar acquisitions; by witless journalists whose only peg for discussing art is its price; by collectors who grub for investment; and by the horde of dealers, ranging from the little sharks to the dignified auction-room gents with faces like silver teapots, who have striven to give art the primary function of bullion. The present...
This childish and witless retort was inspired last weekend by an equally tasteless cheer ("Harvard sucks"), and while both cheer probably contain some measure of truth, the explicit elitism makes the Crimson response far more offensive. In that self-satisfying chant, students and alumni--the most enthusiastic of whom were doubtless drawn from waiting lists--showed what is worst about Harvard...