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...through Saturday and tickets are selling at the speed of light so act quickly..."Your column reminds me of Liz Smith," said a friend the other day. "That's a terrible thing to say. Liz Smith is a total idiot," I replied. "Yeah, but you come off as an airhead. I mean, that's cool though. That's the point, right?" Uh. No. I'm smart. I swear! You can ask my mom. She'll be one of the tourists in the Square this weekend...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's in the [K]NOW: a pop culture compendium | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...Bush, on the other hand, must subdue the frat boy Caliban who lives inside him, the airhead who expresses himself in the famous smirk that makes W. look, at times, like Mel Brooks as Governor Lepetomane in "Blazing Saddles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Debating: Weird Al and Curious George | 1/27/2000 | See Source »

...generously represented. And so is the Amazon work ethic. "You have to prove yourself," says Edwards, 30, who came here from a print shop. "But once they notice that you're on time, hardworking and consistent, good things happen. Some people are really motivated," he says, as a headphoned airhead ambles by. "Others aren't motivated at all. And they usually don't last long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...most women in Bond films are, so to speak, "charmed" at least once by Bond, they are by no means undiscriminating. For instance, upon Bond's arrival at an Afghanistan construction site in World, a foreman, terse with unrequited affection, tells him that Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), a shapely airhead-cum-nuclear physicist, is a lesbian. Suffice to say, Bond proves the unlucky foreman wrong...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Always an Icon, A Bond in the '90s | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...counts as a confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like...

Author: By Yo-el Ju, | Title: Confessions | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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