Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think about it. For all the references to thinking--I don't think so, no-brainer, clueless, all the brain surgeons and rocket scientists you don't have to be, and the injunction on some New York City street signs, "Don't even think of parking here"--isn't the real message of these phrases simply, Don't even think...
...right, there can be a fine line, sometimes, between sex and the abuse of it. The officer who comments on his subordinates' good looks may be simply clueless and in need of retraining. The military couple who defy regulations to fraternize off base may be, for all we know, meant for each other. But much of the activity under discussion has nothing ambiguous about it, and certainly nothing fine. We're talking about having one's clothes ripped off and being passed from pawing hand to pawing hand (Tailhook, 1991). About being raped and then told by one's assailant...
With the help of an offensive line that was blowing the clueless Yale defensive front off the ball, Hu gained 113 yards in a whopping 26 carries in the second half...
...copying a big secret of Nickelodeon's success: promotion, promotion, promotion. Fox, for example, has tripled the marketing and promotion budget, in part to advertise its kids' fare on cable and radio stations. ABC is now using its prime-time Friday-night block, which includes youth-oriented series like Clueless, to aggressively promote shows airing the next morning...
...like the unapologetic conviction with which he speaks about the great millennial Wired enchilada: the collapse of governments and economies under the weight of a gajillion interconnected, deregulated fiber-optic strands; the rise of the global village; the triumph of one-to-many communication; the demise of the clueless press. So what if he's such a tightwad that he makes his employees buy their own pens? His vision of the future inspires a dedicated young staff to work unbelievably hard; one of them brought a bunk bed into the office and lived there for months...