Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaping into a nasty stretch of the Amazon. One by one, the piranha enter: Poodlehead, a doe-eyed boy who has already submitted two wretched, thinly-veiled masturbation poems; the Prioress, whose presence causes the room temperature to drop five degrees; Quasimodo, Sigmund the Sea Monster, the Village Idiot, the Whore of Babylon, and a host of other low characters...
...more and more employees are becoming fed up with working alongside people who are stoned. Says a news correspondent for a major New York City TV station: "After all, you work for days sometimes to make a story the best you can, and then some drug-abusing idiot pushes the wrong button when you're on the air. Why should I put up with that...
...danced in his underpants. Ron, with his unaffected way of carrying his celebrity lightly, insists that he had few qualms about taking on the S.N.L. assignment. Says he: "People think that any member of the First Family is necessarily stupid and incompetent. They automatically assume you must be an idiot." His S.N.L. mentors were more apprehensive. "All week I kept thinking, 'He's not actually going to do this,' " recalls Head Writer Jim Downey...
...budget). He tells viewers that a widow has donated her life savings of $7,000 and comments, "Do you realize what an awesome responsibility it is for me to stand here and encourage people to literally give all they have to God? I'm either the biggest fool and idiot and con man in the world or else I'm plugged into heaven...
...Gorbachev would be an idiot--and he's not--if he would not make some kind of gesture before the summit," said Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Goldman said one Soviet dissident who had tried for nearly a decade to leave the Soviet Union was also recently released in preparation for the up-coming summit conference in Geneva...