Word: moronism
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...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...
...prepares to leave for a lecture in Central America, he is approached by Marty Nolan, a contact from the old days. It seems that something funny is going on in the Republic of Tecan, currently a safe haven for U.S. interests. "Our ambassador is a Birchite moron," Nolan reports. "The cops lock you up for reading Voltaire." What really troubles Nolan is the behavior of a Roman Catholic priest and nun, both Americans, who are defying their superiors by refusing to close down a small mission and clinic on the Caribbean coast. Surely Holliwell can find an excuse to drop...
...mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon Man in a three-piece suit than he does in his usual dirty t-shirt. But his primitive good looks help in his appearing appropriately uncomfortable in his high-powered, corporate surroundings...