Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Foolish Love" at 7 p.m. Secluded in hisdarkened room, a young man communicates with theworld around him exclusively by way of atelescope, gradually establishing an intimaterelationship with an unknown woman whose visit tothe secluded apartment upsets the previouslyestablished delicate balance between them. Thefilm explores the psychological aspect ofloneliness characteristic of the great city ofAthens...
...feel we have to talk to women to find outwho's interested. It's not official, but it wouldbe foolish to not move forward at all and do itall in three or four days," said Fly PunchmasterWalter E.B. Sipe '95, who is in charge of theclub's fall membership drive...
...faces appeared at windows around the courtyard, curious about the ruckus but not foolish enough to raise their windows in the storm. We finally stopped and fought our way indoors, grinning ear to ear with spontaneity and the conviction that we had done our share to preserve the spirit of Old Eliot...
Where these people have been all semester is anybody's guess--perhaps sleeping in, or working on other classes, perhaps simply spending the hour laughing at the saps who were foolish enough to actually show up to class. After a few minutes of "review," there is little doubt that whatever they were doing, their absence will scarcely make a dent in their performance...
...wealthy mid-Americans in 1907 are long dead and undefended. Health faddists are still abundant and deserving of mockery, but they wear Lycra now, and their spas offer aromatherapy, Nautilus machines and biofeedback. They won't recognize themselves in Boyle's mirror. The author's characters are self-evidently foolish -- the case does not need 476 pages of proving -- and so two-dimensional that there is no question of caring about them as if they had real blood and real pain. Which leaves a reader of Boyle's cheerful and inoffensive tale asking the deadliest of questions: So what...