Word: daft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 14 on him. With only seven weeks left to find a smoking gun, D'Amato called fresh prey to the stand: former Clinton chief of staff Betsey Wright. As Libby, the most vivid supporting character in Primary Colors, Wright was portrayed as a wild-eyed, foul-mouthed, daft Dustbuster, so excitable that much of her dialogue in the book is in capital letters. In real life, she was the inadvertent author of the memorable "bimbo eruptions" line and could often get emotional when defending her boss. But last Thursday Wright calmly turned the tables on her inquisitors. Asked about...
...when MST3K made its network debut, so did the Kids in the Hall, the Toronto quintet noted for their daft, deadpan playlets about modern domesticity--and for their fondness for women's frocks. From these five young men (David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) now comes the inevitable feature film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. This movie, borrowing the plot of the 1951 Alec Guinness comedy The Man in the White Suit; is about a "happy drug" that makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have...
...multi-layered elements among middle-class and blue-collar blacks that were the overwhelming presence at the Million Man March are not likely to become tools or puppets of black extremists; they are not politically daft," Kilson wrote...
McMurtry has a fine time with youthful damnfoolishness, and so does the reader. The young Rangers are randy and daft, and so coltish around women that, as in Lonesome Dove, they refer to sexual congress as a "poke." Call and McCrae survive by dumb luck, though it's not clear by adventure's end that either has learned a dime's worth of sense. In fact, they are still...
...find one, later, long after I stoppedtrying or caring. Meanwhile, it was the Lionel B.crew, daft as they collectively were, that kept meentertained while I tried to figure out what thehell I was doing at Harvard...