Word: cluelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Murray: Total consciousness...no, wait, that's from Caddyshack. Actually, just an invite to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and lots of cheerful, clueless old ladies to dump into bunkers as his speed schtick goes...
Paglia sees a sexual wasteland populated by Sandra Dee girl-women who cry wolf at the first wolf whistle, and clueless men emasculated by feminism's stern dictates. The longest new essay, "No Law in the Arena," is a panorama of hot-button topics: rape, harassment, pornography, abortion. What makes Paglia infuriating and invaluable is her willingness to find, in these victimological issues, shades of male anxiety and female responsibility. There are also quieter pieces, notably a loving memoir of four homosexual friends who helped shape her sensibility. But it's silly to ask this brainy pipshriek to calm down...
...purchasing the Berkeley guide, which enlightened me as to the whereabouts of excellent Vietnamese dining. I guess that I could have survived France on brie and baguettes. But if I hadn't encountered John N. Tangent '58 that day in Paris, I would still be walking through the Yard clueless as to the half of my classmates spying...
...case was too clean, too clueless. "It would be very hard to be lost in this county for a long period of time," Sheriff Wells observed. "This is a large hunting area. We've never looked for a car this long here that we haven't found." The sheriff, however, did not dwell publicly on his suspicions. For one thing, parents who turn violent toward their children often turn suicidal too -- in which case the mystery might never be solved...
...scary parts scary. The puzzle is even puzzling: What did Florida lawyer Matthew Hope stumble over while trying to negotiate the sale of a fairgrounds to a local circus that got him shot? A few of Hope's friends try to find out and are soon stumbling clueless through the circus world, wondering whether the death of a gorgeous midget was suicide or murder, why the animal trainer seems himself to be a predator, and whether the dashing young man who hangs by his hair is kept aloft by cocaine...