Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Love it. Dick Tracy's look surely does merit rapture, but the movie also has wit and grace in a film era of witless gross-out. Scan the bold sweep of the narrative, which poses ripe dilemmas of career, love and family for a loner sleuth. Hum the songs written by Stephen Sondheim in his (hummable) Follies mode and splendidly performed by Madonna and Patinkin. Attend to the bold filigree work of the film's supporting cast of rogues, most of whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their...
...years, advocates of softer-sounding causes have been intoning the sacred syllables as piously as the Pentagon. It is firmly implanted in conventional wisdom that our economic competitiveness is a matter of national security. Fighting drug traffic is proclaimed a matter of national security. So is repairing our witless educational system, our unhealthy health system, our crumbling infrastructure...