Word: daftness
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...ways of doing this is to launch a candidate from the ranks of a claimant group, hoping to gain the nomination of a major party, influence the nomination, or generate political spinoffs of future significance to electoral politics. Jesse Jackson, an incredibly intelligent person, would have to be rather daft to contemplate gaining the Democratic nomination or influencing it significantly, so it can be presumed his purposes center on the political spinoffs from his candidacy...
That did not please Steel, who called Jenkins' swift decision "quite, quite daft." From the outset, Steel, 45, said that he would happily defer to Jenkins as the Alliance's elder statesman. Suddenly, he found himself threatened by a young politician as ambitious and well spoken as himself. Since the Liberals won more seats (17) than the S.D.P., Steel's M.P.s are already pressing for a larger say in Alliance affairs...
...Schlockmeister Roger Gorman on a frayed-shoestring budget (way under $100,000), using no-name actors (including a 23-year-old Jack Nicholson) on grungy sets left over from another picture. It was filmed in an impossible two days. But Screenwriter Charles B. Griffith extracted 70 minutes of fast, daft humor from his blending of the horror and science-fiction genres...
...strongest roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...
...collection of sketches and stories is a quality hard to describe without making him seem fatuous and the describer sound balmy. He is in love with the upper Midwest, with the region and the people that Sinclair Lewis derided. He is rooted, fond of hickishness, fascinated by the utter, daft strangeness of the ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these pieces to The New Yorker, he is firmly in place as a gifted regional...