| Her colleagues are lampooned as propeller-headed nincompoops or scheming mini-Rasputins. |
| But it is fun to think of the worst American newsrooms as comprising a bunch of jerks working for an elite corps of nincompoops. |
| Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film. |
| We can gossip, as professionals are apt to do, about incompetence and nincompoops and pretenders and impostors. |
| How do you dramatize dullards, weaklings, and nincompoops and not wind up with a movie theatre full of gentle snoring? |
| The best it can do is take people's minds off it by producing wow-provoking new initiatives and making National look like a bunch of nincompoops. |
