Word: foolishness
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...