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...like a moron, I took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Nonsex | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...concept of Clint Eastwood as the justice-bent dope is more important than Richard Dreyfuss as the awestruck moron being carted off to Mars where everything will be just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tales from the Neon Netherworld | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...squad. After all, the Pistols had caused a scandal on British TV a year ago with their vile language. They had been fired by two record companies, locked out by most of Britain's major rock clubs and concert halls, reviled for a song calling the Queen a moron during the Silver Jubilee celebration and castigated nearly everywhere for their world-class grossness. Just two weeks ago, in fact, their entry into the U.S. had been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled-because members of the group had minor criminal records. But no repro-vals were necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sex Pistols Are Here | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Avoiding the creek that snakes circuitously through Hickory Ridge, Fitzgibbons hit 15 greens in regulation. "I hit the ball dynamite," Fitzgibbons said. "I was all over the stick but putted like a moron...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Trail Southern Connecticut by Three After First Round Play in Toski Tournament | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...course, Wolfe isn't able to carry this through without inconsistencies and almost constant maiming of facts. At certain points in the piece the American intellectual is a moron, a pretentious ape who stores but cannot read back issues of The New York Review of Books. The kind of person who furnishes his house in the built-for-children way that is the mark of the consumption-oriented hipster: stark white walls, huge plants and Coltrane records. At other times the same group is unbelievably activist, traveling the country and spreading its poison about this great land on every Midwest...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Big Bad Wolfe | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

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