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Word: foolish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you get up on a team like that, there is a tendency to have a letdown," Tomassoni said. "We took some foolish penalties...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Icemen Explode For Four Against Yale | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...laughing so hard she was crying. My dad ruffled my hair and said, "So this is the sleaze you work with." Okay, so it didn't boost my ego, and I felt a bit foolish for worrying, but their reaction did remind me not to take the tension over the magazine so seriously...

Author: By Maren Lau, | Title: On Being an Edge Woman | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

...sense of origin. "If you don't know where you come from," she insists, "then you're just knocking about the world, you know." She grew up in Orissa, a region in eastern India. After a brief stint at Delhi University, she came to Harvard, where she discovered "this foolish confidence that you can do anything." She also discovered her interest in film. Arriving in Cambridge, she intended to study theater but found the local acting scene backward and banal: "It was before Brustein was at the Loeb, and Oklahoma! was playing, endlessly. I just quit it and took...

Author: By Ajitha Reddy, | Title: MIRA NAIR | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...Harvard] gives you a foolish confidence that can be used well," Nair said. "I have no illusions about the elite, because I went to school with them...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Director Warns of Hollywood Glamour | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...chance music in which nothing is left to chance -- as Cage eventually realized. In Peter Greenaway's 1983 television documentary on him, Cage complains that he has had trouble getting performers to take him seriously. "I must find a way to let people be free without their being foolish," Cage says, "so that their freedom will make them noble." Lenin might have felt the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounds of Silence | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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