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"The killer, like I've been trying to convince those blockheaded cops all day!"

All that was necessary was for him to think those blockheaded thoughts and then to utter them.

Yet over the years, their relationship grew, a bond cemented despite the blockheaded forces that tried to drive them apart.

Well, if I can't understand, what d'you expect of that poor fellow and his blockheaded mate?

"Oh, for pity's sake, Caesar, stop being so blockheaded!

"This is my special 'All Men Are Blockheaded Idiots' blend."

Now these blockheaded Harkonnens were - for no apparent reason - trying to kill his workers, the tools with which he intended to remake the planet!

In the child he saw a future full of possibilities, another heir to House Harkonnen who might outperform his blockheaded brother Rabban.

Oleshev scowled at it: the taxi driver, a blockheaded Swede, according to his taxi license, wouldn't go any farther ofF-road.

Or just maybe your luck turns because one man in the Bronx can't live without you, or pass on a chance to make a blockbuster deal, or even a blockheaded one.

But it isn't just songs that have been borrowed (and mutilated) for this production, which features a blockheaded comic strip of a book by Richard Dresser, a respectable playwright who should know better.

There was already a sense of lost opportunities - the Charles Smith nightmare-around-the-rim sequence, Anthony Mason insurrections, valiant efforts by Derek Harper, the blockheaded fight in Miami last spring.

We chanced to be lubricating ourselves side by side in the hotel bar at a World Fantasy Convention in Sydney, Australia, when a trio of well-sloshed local fans let their literary criticism get offensively verbal (Macdonald's novel featured a blockheaded Aussie character) and then physical.

The successor adjective to blockheaded and woodenheaded, both in lexical desuetude, became fixed in American slang on or soon after Sept. 23, 1908, with the New York Giants facing the Chicago Cubs in the game that would ultimately decide which team would win the National League pennant.

In Molly she's inhabiting a standard role - the wife worn to a frazzle by her husband's blockheaded insensitivity - but with her wide, sad eyes, brittle posture and a voice that somehow manages to ascend to a screech without being irritating, she puts a personal stamp on it that is not only amusing but credible.

But others, like the novelist Mary-Ann Tirone Smith's "Piquing the Spirits," a pungent account of climbing Mount Cameroon with a blockheaded film-location scout looking to site a "Tarzan" remake, evoke a fine feel for the daily rhythms and saving humor of expatriate life in the third world.