Word: fooled
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...innocent. Unchecked, it is bound to make it harder for rising generations to maintain a clear notion of the truly natural to which mankind indeed remains tied. Not long ago, a Chiffon margarine commercial got a lot of mileage out of the line "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." It is even less nice to blame and credit her for things beyond her doing...
...play the fool resignedly...
Republican White is skeptical. "A leopard doesn't change his spots," he says. "The people of Arkansas knew he was using them. He thought he could fool them and spend his time advancing his own career." White's proudest achievements as Governor have been his reorganization of the state's vocational schools and his gusto for capital punishment. "I've set 22 execution dates," he declares. "Clinton wouldn't set any execution dates." White is riled by a federal court ruling that a state law he signed, requiring public schools to teach "creation science...
...charges that she was having a romance with Agee. After denying the accusation at the time, the two married last June. That episode still haunts Agee. Says one of Wall Street's most prominent merger makers: "No one wants to be taken over by Agee. He made a fool of himself with Mary Cunningham. Other corporate managers don't respect...
...Orson Welles that it is "the best role that Shakespeare ever wrote" than will share Bernard Shaw's narrow view of the man as "a besotted and disgusting old wretch." We find in him features drawn from the miles gloriosus of ancient Roman comedy, from the stage Vice, Devil, Fool, and Lord of Misrule, from Rabelais and Heaven knows what else-all heightened through Shakespeare's astonishing inventiveness into something far greater than the sum of his parts...