Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paying to see "Clueless" is not really mandatory. You can learn most of the jokes by surfing the reviews and get a hint of star Alicia Silverstone's blithe luster by watching MTV's relentless promotions. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans in the mid '90s. As Cher, a popular Beverly Hills high schooler toiling as a matchmaker and makeover adviser to a clumsy friend, Silverstone is the model of conspicuous consumption: wanting, having and wearing, in style. But Amy Heckerling ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High") succeeds in getting the viewer...
Omri's parents remain smiling and clueless about his magical adventures, even though Omri tears around the house, clomping up and down the stairs at all hours of the day and night while stealing tools and food to give to his Indian action-figure...
...recent incessant influx of clueless commercial users has led serious 'Net-heads to declare the existence of "perpetual September." Your parents may or may not have an e-mail account, but they probably have some idea of what you're talking about...
...kidding. But Streep was not when, later in the day, she declared this shoot to be "one of my favorite things I've ever done in my life," thus confounding widespread skepticism over how the cowboy and the lady-representing to the ever gossiping, always clueless outside world what seemed to be utterly antithetical styles and methods of work-would get along. Their contentment with each other and their project was by this time near to purring...
...clueless as the MK board members might appear, experts in corporate governance say there is often little that outside directors can do to straighten out a com-pany before things go very wrong. "They often hear from management, 'Don't worry. It's just a temporary trend,' " says Jay Lorsch, a professor at the Harvard Business School. "It is very hard, even for a very smart group of directors, to understand these things...