Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a junket on the Space Shuttle back before the Challenger disaster, and John Glenn heads off in the fall. But never has America put a presidential aide in space. Can this one fly? "We can teach anyone to become a cosmonaut as long as he's not an idiot," said Mir's deputy flight director Viktor Blagov. So that's okay, then...
...loved playing baseball as a kid, and then I hated it. Not half bad as a pitcher when I was 13, I threw my arm out, and my idiot coach said, "Pitch through the pain," and I did. I was never able to throw hard after that. Maybe it was a bit of good luck. The advantage in later years, when I became a player of the game of catch, was that I was all motion and no speed--a change-up artist with nothing to change up on--so that the children could study the mechanics of throwing...
...Franken wrote a political satire titled Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. The book, in which Franken pokes fun at conservative politicians, sold more than a million copies...
...Carter's sometimes maddening authenticity--his commitment as a Christian, his moral clarity, stubbornness, occasional nastiness. But Brinkley often falls into the organ tones of hagiography, as if performing an oratorio for a living saint. (Every saint needs a Satan: Ronald Reagan comes off here, almost invariably, as an idiot and a disastrous President...
Well, he was an idiot anyway if he'd been expecting something conventional from the Ex. Last weekend's production, under director Ollie Lewis '00, sacrificed most of the appeal of the canonical in favor of a quirkily idiotic yet thoroughly entertaining reinterpretation. Under all the pageantry, music and the interpolated jokes, the viewers might not have been able to follow the plot, but they almost undoubtedly had a rollicking good time...