Word: dopey
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...slow in learning how to talk. "My parents were so worried," he later recalled, "that they consulted a doctor." Even after he had begun using words, sometime after the age of 2, he developed a quirk that prompted the family maid to dub him "der Depperte," the dopey one. Whenever he had something to say, he would try it out on himself, whispering it softly until it sounded good enough to pronounce aloud. "Every sentence he uttered," his worshipful younger sister recalled, "no matter how routine, he repeated to himself softly, moving his lips." It was all very worrying...
...Swings,” the central vignette, moves more slowly, but delivers a message as powerful as the other plays. It examines a somewhat dopey high school couple and their relationship to Michael (Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09), a “really weird” girl who doesn’t live by their rules. The love triangle set up between the three is quickly dismantled, but the supposedly normal couple evolves into an agent of unusual cruelty in yet another ironic twist...
October in Chicago can be thecruelest month, and we're not talking weather. For 88 years it has been a final resting place for the World Series dreams of both the White Sox and Cubs, an epically painful calendar of defeat pockmarked by Bartman (the dopey fan who may have cost the Cubs the pennant in 2003) and the "Black Sox" (the team that threw the 1919 Series). The record had been equaled only by the Boston Red Sox, whose curse-crushing triumph last year proved that nobody can lose forever. So as the White Sox legions watched their...
...into invisibility and back again. This gift enables him to learn more than he wants to know about other people's private lives, but it cannot save him from messing up his own. He soon finds himself fired from his job and passively succumbing to sexual entanglements with a dopey ex-colleague and a predatory cocktail harpist who lives in a neighboring apartment...
...year. Disney on Ice has been performed in Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities since 1996. The company is even developing a new live-action film reminiscent of Snow White in which a young woman in 1880s China is protected by seven Shaolin fighting monks instead of the familiar Happy, Dopey...