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Word: cluelessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother lode of tourists is not the Air and Space Museum or the Washington Monument, but rather the region right next to the foot of Metro escalators. D.C. workers complain incessantly of the constant clogging of the Metro system by clueless tourists, but blame the geniuses who created the most confusing form of mass transportation in the nation, maybe even the world. The system charges different amounts for every trip, implements other prices at rush hour and forces passengers to use their cards to get both in and out of the stations. Locals have no trouble with this...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, | Title: A Native's Guide to Tourist-Watching | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...EXAMPLES] Ally McBeal's Renee (Lisa Nicole Carson) V.I.P.'s Maxine (Angelle Brooks) Clueless's Dionne (Stacey Dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stereotype Watch | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...only problem I ran into came from clueless photo finishers. My local photo store claimed it sold Picture CD, but it turned out I was being offered another Kodak service, called Photo CD--a photos-to-disc process geared toward professionals that has been around for seven years, costs more than twice as much and requires users to have their own image-editing software. Another issue: Mac users will have to wait until summer's end for Picture CD. It may be worth it. I found that Picture CD gave me as much technology as I needed. The only thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photo Finishes | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Admitting that they went into the jobrelatively "clueless," Howard Georgi said he feltthe little things in the House--like Masters' openhouses and the House's annual doughnut bash--madethe year especially worth while...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Study Shows Students Increasingly Form Diverse Blocking Groups | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...simple response to this is that the very explosion of ancient literary props in Hollywood shows just how impoverished our contemporary imagination has become: the only way we can find good stories is by going back to Titus Andronicus. Clueless directors find their inspiration in Jane Austen. But this doesn't get around the fact that we're seeing full-dress, four-hour versions of Hamlet now, with Dostoevsky's life story, in The Gambler, on its way this August. And these are not just the playthings of the black berets in art houses; to my alarm, the Academy Awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fact, We're Dumbing Up | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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