Word: cluelessness
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...relationship between fathers and daughters is often caricatured as one in which a clueless dad is stumped by his eye-rolling offspring as she blows past him on her way to the mall. But the interaction between dads and daughters is far more complex. It not only sets an example for the kind of partner a girl may choose as she gets older but also affects the way she sees herself. Recent research, however, indicates that even fathers and daughters who are close during the early years tend to drift apart as girls hit their teens. That's partly...
...Kidnapped by dissolute Indian courtiers, Pran undergoes the first of his metamorphoses by becoming Rukhsana, dressing in girl's clothing as bait to blackmail clueless British colonial officers of confused sexuality. Kunzru's alcohol-soaked collision of English stiffness and Indian sensuality has a Dickensian slant (though with more buggery than one remembers from The Pickwick Papers). After an apocalyptic tiger hunt, Rukhsana takes refuge in Bombay, where by day he learns English and by night rules the red lights as a half-breed hustler called Pretty Bobby...
...know, Father Jim never did more than snap towels with the guys. But if he had, there were lots of reasons why the nuns would have been clueless or in denial. Says Sister Joan Chittister, 50 years a Benedictine nun and the author of more than a dozen books: "Since all these charges have come out, we look at one another and ask, 'Did you know? How could we have missed this?'" Sister Joan remembers scolding more than one youngster for being late to class, never thinking it could be anything more than dawdling: "I remember saying, 'Mass has been...
...descend into a soap opera from the very beginning. Struggling to end a torrid affair with her former boss, the young professional Aditi (radiantly performed by Vasundhara Das) has just days to reconsile with her arranged marriage to Hemant (Parvin Dabas), a handsome if slightly dull engineer who remains clueless to Aditi’s extramarital shenanigans...
...Angeles native, Sheng has taken photography courses at Harvard since his first year and is a VES concentrator. In high school, he was photo editor of his yearbook. He describes the L.A. suburb where he lived, Thousand Oaks, as being “like the movie Clueless. The yearbook was aesthetically pleasing, and [choosing pictures for layout] was a lesson in beauty.” Later, he decided he wanted to take pictures rather than merely select them and he enrolled in an “amazing” community college course that helped prepare him for photo classes...