Word: moronically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SECRET! Captured by the East German secret police, Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer), an American rock star turned secret agent, is being tortured. This happens off-camera, but we have some idea of his suffering because one of his tormentors has been introduced as "a moron who knows only what he reads in the New York Post," and he has been observed, tabloid in hand, slobbering. Our worst fears are confirmed when we learn Nick has not cracked and an escalation of his agony is required. "Do you want me to bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings?" an underling asks...
...back of his limousine, slamming his first together and muttering "darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat's characterization, or rather caricature, elicits a laugh or two, but The Right Stuff's otherwise steady wit makes such heavy-handed jabs unnecessary...
...hundreds of lawsuits outstanding against manufacturers and sellers. Qantel Corp., a California-based manufacturer of small computers, lost a $5 million lawsuit last spring to a scientific systems firm that accused it of selling computers without the accompanying software. During the trial, the plaintiffs attorney described Qantel computers as "moron machines" that "won't do anything...
Anyone who believes peace can be achieved in the Middle East is an idealistic moron. Fanatics pushed us around in Iran and now in Lebanon. Before we get these radicals to stop murdering one another, we had better find a way to make them stop killing...
...invite them all to leave, we embarrass the entire Admissions Office, and what is more important, face the unpleasant prospect of building a new team from scratch while suffering a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of every other Ivy League team. What kind of low-grade moron or morons started all this-at Harvard of all places? I suggest a complete review of our admissions procedures...