Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their support. The letters, phone calls and editorials were running heavily in her favor; politicians from both sides of the aisle were blasting the Air Force for conducting a witch-hunt. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, no softy on matters military, declared the previous day that the Pentagon was clueless. "I mean, get real: You're still dealing with human beings. I think it's unfair." Flinn was being "badly abused," Lott said, and at the very least deserved an honorable discharge...
...series gives the idea more dimension. Buffy, like many of her TV peers, must deal with an absurdly clueless parent (her mom doesn't know she's a vampire slayer); the insularity of generic suburbia (Buffy lives in familiar but fictional Sunnydale, Daria in Lawndale); and a dumb but popular nemesis, Cordelia, who sets out to test Buffy's coolness quotient on Buffy's first day at school. "Vamp nail polish?" Cordelia inquires. "So over," Buffy confidently answers. "John Tesh?" Cordelia persists. "The devil," Buffy replies...
...describes his script, "What it Takes," as "sort of like 'Clueless' but from a male's perspective, about coming of age in Beverly Hills" and says that his piece may have been optioned before 'Clueless' was sold...
When it comes to unraveling a Washington scandal, the best clues often come from the most clueless. They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb. So it was in the best Washington tradition that congressional investigators were focusing their attention last week on a former interior designer with a remarkable knack for placing herself near the hot spots of trouble for her old friend, Bill Clinton...
...remain in Section 12 of the Bright Center have lost most of their originality already. The Harvard band continues to sing a hopelessly clueless tune far too often. Alumni seemed to be scared away from the arena by the current state of the on-ice product...