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...Governor's lap at a West Virginia football game; she was accused (perhaps unfairly) of kicking a state trooper during a helicopter trip and of cursing another when she missed a phone call. Speaking before a group of gifted high school students, she called Bob Dole "an idiot on every subject.'' At political appearances she looked-and was-unhappy, eager to get back to her musical activities and seemingly unconcerned that she was fast becoming a political liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OH! MADAME FIRST LADY! | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Gritz: That's due to Mark Koernke's crap. When I was a young flight officer, I don't know how many times I circled around water towers trying to figure out where the hell I was at 500 ft. I'm sure glad some idiot wasn't out there thinking I was the Russians and shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James (Bo) Gritz: ON THE MODERATE FRINGE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

Maybe no one is the perfect person for a job that depends so much on dumb luck in guessing the public's whims. An idiot could succeed in such a position, a genius could fail, simply by picking or passing on a Star Wars or a Forrest Gump. It's also possible that Ovitz was unsuited for the position. As a talent agent, he is a seller in a seller's market; the studios want his clients and will pay hugely for them. As MCA czar, he would have been a buyer in that market. The fellow who helped jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEAL THAT WASN'T | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THOMAS KENEALLY : BRICKLAYING | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

When asked about where I go to school by someone back home, after exhausting the evasive replies ("Massachusetts," "Boston," etc.), I finally say: "Um, Harvard?" I sound like an idiot when I say the name of this fine institution with an interrogative lilt and a tone of muttered apology. From conversations with friends and classmates, I know that I'm not the only one who plays this game...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Harvard's Rational Discourse | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

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