Word: witlessness
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...strike many sparks. Like the Los Angeles festivals, the New York lineup gives too much attention to a genre variously classed as dance, except that the dancers are not trusted enough to be given anything interesting to do; or theater, except that the texts are typically minimal and witless; or performance art, except that the real emphasis is on props and tricks rather than performers. A case in point: the pretentious numbers staged by Bill Forsythe, an American, for his Frankfurt Ballet...
Sometimes it seems that the right books never get burnt. But the world has its quota of idiotic and vicious people just as it has its supplies of books that are vicious, trashy and witless. Books can eventually be as mortal as people -- the acids in the paper eat them, the bindings decay and at last they crumble in one's hands. But their ambition anyway is to outlast the flesh. Books have a kind of enshrining counterlife. One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of words and books...
...money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers, win wars. The sudden acquisition of the stuff can toss our spirits into the air like a hat. The sudden disappearance of the stuff can freeze us witless before the ticker...
...hell--and an early closing--is paved with good intentions. Public spiritedness is no excuse for bad drama, particularly at $15.00 a throw. What's worse, a constant barrage of unimaginitive agitprop will eventually run afoul of the law of diminishing returns. Americans are already information saturated, and witless repititions of the same pointless message about nuclear war will induce indifference, not involvement...
Taunted by a Marine drill instructor who called them "weenies" and some names not fit to print, the actors rappelled down a 50-ft. tower and clambered up an 80-ft. cliff. They were scared witless by special-effects mortar blasts, booby traps and "enemy" ambushes. Dinner was cold Army rations slathered with Tabasco sauce. Sleep meant grubbing a two-man foxhole and dozing in fitful two-hour shifts, interrupted by guard duty and gunfire. And that was only prelude. Filming of Platoon commenced only after two intense weeks of slogging in the bush...