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What do women's pictures have against women? So often recently, romantic comedies create a female lead who's successful in business but a nag, a ditz or klutz at human relationships. And when it comes to men, she's myopic: she can't see Andy Adorable right in front of her. These afflictions beset the career gals played by Sandra Bullock in The Proposal, Katherine Heigl in The Ugly Truth and Sarah Jessica Parker in Did You Hear About the Morgans?. All were obliged to take a course in sensitivity training, at feature-film length, to nudge them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leap Year: The Worst Film of 2010 | 1/9/2010 | See Source »

...interval between one campaign and the next is not usually measured in hours. But votes were still being counted as anonymous advisers to Senator John McCain, amid the smoking rubble of their Obama-bombed effort, began taking Palin down. She was a ditz, they whispered, who didn't know that Africa is a continent, a diva whose $150,000 wardrobe--including silk boxer shorts for hubby Todd--belied her down-home reputation. Talk about airing a campaign's dirty laundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...chose mostly B’s, your study style is...“Dining Hall Ditz.” You sit in the dining hall amidst a growing heap of half-eaten bagels and half-finished cups of coffee, and you spend more time complaining about how much you work you have than actually doing it. The thing is, I am sitting next to you. And it is annoying. So shut...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM's Study Quiz | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...point of leaving your room, because everything is already in it. You probably spend a lot of time playing TextTwist and napping in between pounding out essays, and there is a 95% chance the last person you interacted with was the annoying Dining Hall Ditz (see above) you mistakenly encountered when you left your room three days ago. Big mistake...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM's Study Quiz | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Some people are exactly what they seem, some people are fronting, and then there are the rare few who fit in neither category. Jannie S. Tsuei ’06 is one of the rare ones. She’s not a ditz (she just smiles a lot), but she’s not hiding an inner anger or hatred, either...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Annie M. Lowrey, and Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: War-Torn Warriors | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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