Word: cluelessness
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...worst part for me about this decision is having to select a concentration because I would like to wander a bit through the halls of academia. "Clueless" is a word that only begins to describe me in selecting a topic area in which I will invest half of my Harvard courses taking. I love literature, art, history and languages. My issue is being uncertain about where I fit in within the departmental structure. Do I take a major I will enjoy, or one that is practical? Should I concentrate in a subject area that is easy...
Celebrities who publicly embrace worthy causes sometimes seem to be auditioning less for Sense and Sensibility than for Clueless. Stars have dangled from bridges to protest logging practices, hawked clothes made in sweatshops while promoting moral values and slugged pesky photographers even as they were begging for kindness to animals. A recent surge of show-biz interest in children, however, seems to be as well aimed as it is high profile. More than half a dozen organizations founded or funded by Hollywood celebrities are zeroing in on kids' issues. And early childhood development is one of their top concerns...
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...
...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...