Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King of Hearts is in its third year at Central Square and only god knows why. The film is a worthless inanity--it's sometimes fun to watch but it's ideologically weak. If you're going to make the trek down to Central, you're much better off with a great Woody Allen double feature next door. Sleeper is his tightest work to date, precise, hilarious and painstakingly mapped out. Bananas, where Allen apotheosizes the machismo theme, is the funniest thing he's done...
...vegetation of a tropical rain forest -perhaps the most luxuriant vegetation in all the world-stands on soil that is almost worthless for growing food crops...
Some academicians, like Arthur Jensen, William Shockley, and Richard Herrnstein, say racial differences in I.Q. test scores show that black people may be genetically inferior to whites. The evidence that has been advanced to support this claim is entirely worthless. Jensen himself, in a recent article in Behavior Genetics (April, 1974) has conceded that the basic data gathered years ago by Cyril Burt--the evidence Jensen himself used to prove his hereditarian theories--is spurious. Furthermore, the I.Q. test themselves are notoriously biased against black people...
...happens to be a good writer. He's also nutty as a fruitcake to me, you see. I shouldn't say that, 'cause in a sense he pays perverse tribute to my writing. He's implying that I'm a good writer but wasting my time with these worthless people, this inert mass of people. Of course, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He's never met 'em. 'Cause I've met 'em. [Laughs] That's pretty exciting, you know. Once you get a person alone, each one is unique. Each...
...Anatole Broyard is nutty as a fruitcake. He's implying that I'm a good writer but wasting my time with worthless people. Of course, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about...