Word: cretinism
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Note: if I don't get to your movie, or worse, if I pan it, I'm sorry. I am a cinematic cretin without an ounce of taste in my body. On the other hand, I am the one with the column, and you are merely opinionated...
...hoots and applause. Mary Matalin, who managed George Bush's campaign last year, was also on the panel, and she asked how many in the audience had ever watched or listened to Limbaugh. "Silence," Matalin says. "Absolute silence. Nothing. Nobody." Of course, after she herself dismisses Stern as a cretin, she admits she has never really listened...
...said the unexamined life. The unexamined death is a waste too. Socrates spent the hours before his execution by hemlock in 399 B.C. discussing the immortality of the soul. Reflection is not television's strong suit. The medium is a fairly crude moral filter, a kind of brilliant, overstimulated cretin. Its brain waves are discontinuous...
This pictorial core is preceded by a scale model of the original installation in Munich (an astonishing piece of detective work in itself), complete with the Nazis' derogatory slogans ("Revelation of the Jewish racial soul," "The ideal -- cretin and whore," and so forth) written around them. The museum has also produced voluminous samplings of other aspects of the Nazi program of culture as total propaganda. There are vitrines of banned books and Nazi catalogs, and tape loops of old newsreels of cultural parades in Munich: triumphal processions of kitsch, with huge papier-mache Greek heads borne by people dressed...
...support abortion rights are not intellectuals. As if people who support abortion rights and do not go to Harvard are not intellectuals. In short, if you do not go to the same school as us and share the same views as us, they seemed to say, you are a cretin...