Word: klutz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaint of the bias against disadvantaged students is transparently cynical. This committment to equal opportunity for students of all socioeconomic background extends only to athletes. What coach has ever offered to share athletic slush funds with a brilliant, poverty stricken klutz...
...tapes that prompted Richard Nixon's Watergate resignation in 1974 might never have existed had he not been such a klutz with gadgets. Nixon was reluctant to have his conversations recorded, writes former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman in Prologue, a National Archives publication. But if there had to be a taping system, the President said, he wanted something simple -- like Lyndon Johnson's manually operated setup...
People are full of theories about my popularity. Some compare me to Rocky and Bullwinkle -- you remember, the plucky squirrel and the jug-eared moose -- or some klutz named Mork from Ork, because these bozos seemed to be entertaining children while really offering sophisticated satire of politics and pop culture. One notion is that because I am a shut-in, to stay hidden, and learn everything I know about the world from TV, I constitute some sort of commentary on what children learn from watching the box. Another idea is that I am sort of a metaphorical child myself...
...Anne Klutz of Berkely, Calif.; Tracy Hackling of Center Point, N.Y.; Heather Jackson of LaGoona, Calif.; Suzy Carls of Wayland; and Jennifer Clawson of pittsford, N.Y., will now try their skill at the collegiate level...
Poor Polly. She's 31 going on 13, a gamine klutz working as a temp, famished for experiences that will match her soaring fantasies. She takes photographs and records herself on videotape; she is her own and only pal, admirer and shrink. Polly (Sheila McCarthy) needs to find a heroine -- say, the supersoignee curator of an art gallery (Paule Baillargeon). Then she needs to feel betrayed by this designated goddess so she can finally locate her strengths...