Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magician will tell you that the easiest audience to fool is the most intelligent one, the most well-educated. They have the quickest eyes, and make the most assumptions...
...riddles about themselves. On "Time Out of Mind," an ode to drugs, they define being high: "It's the light in my eyes--it's perfection and grace--it's the smile on my face." Rock can live without such self-indulgent obscurism. "I was the whining stranger--a fool in love with time to kill," confesses Fagen in "My Rival," but he only croons, the love is self-love, and time is unfortunately flogged to death as we writhe, waiting for something to happen...
...opposition's book on Reagan (by now a public document) is that he is always underestimated. That too is a mark of the natural man ?the fox taken for a fool who winds up taking the taker. Yet there is no Volpone slyness in Reagan. If he has been underestimated, it may be that he gives every sign of underestimating himself?not as a tactic, but honestly. So wholly without self-puffery is he that he places the burden of judging him entirely on others, and since he is wholly without self-puffery, the judgment is almost always favorable...
...Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...
...self-helping laymen. Most would agree that certain procedures, like changing a name, are simple enough for people to handle on their own. But when it comes to more complicated matters, their views are still summed up in an old proverb: "He that pleads his own cause has a fool for his client." Says San Francisco Attorney Melvin Belli: "If you can take out your own tonsils and deliver your own child, then you shouldn't be concerned about going to court without the aid of a lawyer...