Word: cluelessness
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...these provocative appearances, Livingstone was deposed by various investigatory panels, including the Senate Whitewater Committee, and ran up enormous legal bills. (He has started a defense fund.) The investigators focused on better-connected figures after concluding, in the words of a committee source, that Livingstone was "more or less clueless...
...urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
...shirts both set looks that lasted for months on the streets. Bloomingdale's plays the game, selling 500 yellow trench coats a la Dick Tracy in 1990. On the other hand, the store's executives weren't quite quick enough to lock in Alicia Silverstone and last year's Clueless look, so clearly this is a chancy business...
...look, you know that the '60s had a core of nobility and tragedy. It breaks the heart still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt the vibration in the dreamy, New Age utterances of poor seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff's mother...
Your classmates have been researching all summer, have snagged that professor who is so perfect for your topic and probably got paid in the process. Sophomores, be advised--do not await departmental instructions about the appropriate pace for the thesis project. Such advising exists for the utterly clueless group of students who are under the impression that no one in their class has a real topic yet. I know it is hard to believe, but most have an advisor even before the "how to choose an advisor" seminar...