Word: witlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nighttime is the right time to enjoy these campfire tales about UFO sightings. They time-trip the ear medium back to its spooky prime, when Orson Welles scared America witless with a Martian Halloween prank, when Arch Oboler intoned sepulchrally, "And now, Lights Out." A typical Coast to Coast is an all-night ghost story disguised as a talk show. The story being told may be the truth; it may be a crock. But it's often great radio...
...Dunst of such films as Wag the Dog and Michelle Williams of Dawson's Creek) who take a wrong turn on a White House tour and stumble onto some presidential secrets. Worried about what they might know, President Nixon (Dan Hedaya) offers them jobs as dog-walkers. Suddenly, the witless pair find themselves embroiled in the Watergate controversy...
...sobriety about it. These people think they're saying something serious about greed and how it can cloud people's judgment. They want you to think Fargo or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But there's neither intricacy nor surprise in the narrative, and these dopes are tedious, witless company. Mostly you find yourself thinking, "How long until dinner...
...brevity is indeed the soul of wit, then a group of Harvard students gathered together with the purpose of discussion is an especially witless occasion. We speak well, we have profound things to say, and we love to hear ourselves talk. The point is, it seems that all we do is talk...
...hands as though she were appealing for help. And why not? The angel, bearing the news that God has just impregnated her (you can see God in the background, as invasive and patriarchal as could be), seems to have fairly burst into the room. A cat, scared witless by the angel's irruption, bounds away, back arched--you can almost hear it hiss. The painting is funny and reverent, gawky and vernacular and dreamlike, all at the same time. Hence its modern appeal...