Word: idiotically
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...least the madness and the hot passions. It's a violent book, almost to the point of being gory. Among the "selections" from Garp's work included in the book is "The World According to Bensenhaver," in which a woman stabs to death the idiot farm boy who rapes her. One of the most horrifying (and at the same time, exhilirating) passages in recent memory involves Garp driving his children home from the movies. He has a habit of turning off the lights and coasting the family Volvo uphill and into his garage at night. Moving slowly, he rams...
...season, in the midst of a subdued celebration. "He just hates my guts and he won't let me pitch. If I bail him out like I bailed him out last year then he won't be able to trade me, and he'll look like an idiot besides...
...What a world is this?" one says with open arms. "We spend our lives doing silly things we never like to do, sending shit up into the stratosphere--but the duck, the duck, he can fly. Any idiot can learn to swim, but it takes a bird...
...illusions or false pride about his screen work. "I'm fascinated by the movies simply because it is an enormous machine for making money and no matter how bad they run it, it still makes money. It's the perfect industry to put your nephew in and your idiot cousin, because they'll be geniuses...
...specter of unbridled price cutting and route grabbing frightens many financial experts, who fear that some lines will not be able to earn the returns needed to justify large loans. One airline financial officer calls the CAB'S free-enterprising Chairman Albert Kahn "an intellectual giant and a commercial idiot...