Word: crackpot
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...likelihood of winning the election is “one in 100...to the second power,” Gillis says, echoing his statements from the UC debate. “I have a lot of crackpot ideas and hopefully one of them will actually stick...
...quixotic attempt to preserve his adopted tribe and its homeland. It's a picaresque and pulpy story, pure pleasure at times, full of duels and hunts and treks and sweaty, historically accurate sex (although Claire, the book's weakest link, never becomes more than a compilation of crackpot feminine ideals). But it has a sad heart, and in the end an elderly Will is left wincing in the glare of newfangled electric lightbulbs and mourning the passing of the Cherokee way of life. "All I can say," he sighs, "is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift...
...PEOPLE SOMETIMES MAKE FUN OF HIM AS MR. '70S SCHMALTZ. WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT HIM? I love his sense of humor. I love his devotion to the craft and his devotion to this kind of music. That music is really the music of his childhood. One of my crackpot theories is that you never really get over that music. He's never really budged off his music, which I think is really fascinating. When I was flagged, I said, Oh, maybe I better do something else, and didn't have the courage of my convictions. But he really does...
...that I would criticize my classmates. This particular “Crazy Hakim”—as the film credits identify the crackpot Scheherazade-cum-shopkeeper figure I played—is wasting her time with poetry and European languages. Not exactly among those things President Bush has recently announced to be “critical” to national interests...
...more to the point, he just seemed to give the rich much more credit than they really deserved. The scene represented in “Scene” is, in my humble opinion, scarcely more important than any other scene here. Their staff is just another bunch of crackpot weirdos who really want to validate their existence, just like the rest of us.Needless to say, Harvard has many different scenes within its walls. There is a Mathematics-concentrator scene that seems to involve a lot of Rachmaninoff and anime. There is a Biology scene, which appears to require constant avowals...