This is made clear in a laugh-rich divorce-court scene early on : What looks like an intense whispered case discussion between the lead lawyer, Miles, and his second chair, Wrigley ( Paul Adelstein ), instead turns out to be a glorious summary of Miles'fatuousness.
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But what amazed me was not the fatuousness of the argument, but how close the dollar figures are : The graphic shows that a 25-year program of investing $ 200 a month in the stocks of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index would have built an accumulation of $ 465, 930 from 1970 to 1975.
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I thought it was something even less than good, but this new film, which opened yesterday at the Criterion and other theaters, is of such spectacular fatuousness that it makes the first seem virtually an axiom of screen art . " John Simon wrote in " National Review ", " There is a very strong probability that " Exorcist II " is the stupidest major movie ever made, " and Jack Lewis wrote in the " Daily Mirror " : " It's all too ludicrous to frighten and the only time you're likely to hide your head will be in shame for watching it ."
