Word: moronization
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...somehow one of the most despicable characters in recent cinema became beloved. The secret was combining the classic protagonist and antagonist from teen movies: Stifler is both John Belushi's drunk moron Bluto and the Waspy frat president Greg Marmalard from Animal House. He's a jerk, but he sure...
Beyonce is not a syntactic moron, just a 21-year-old with some miles to go on the journey to womanhood. That she is simultaneously on the road to one-name multimedia stardom might explain some of the giggling. After selling 11.7 million albums (according to Nielsen SoundScan) with girl group Destiny's Child and scooping up the only bits of critical praise thrown near last summer's dreadful Austin Powers in Goldmember, Beyonce is right now making her move from ensemble player to center stage. Her first solo album, Dangerously in Love, arrives June 24 with enormous commercial expectations...
Unsurprisingly, Just Married isn’t smart enough to give the audience any reason to purchase stock. Tom is clearly a complete moron, and Sarah’s twinkly-eyed ignorance of her family’s monetary stuffiness doesn’t help the couple’s obvious destiny seem any more realistic...
...statement raised hopes of a settlement as peace talks move into their third round in Oslo. CANADA Foot in Mouth Françoise Ducros, a top aide to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, resigned after she was overheard privately telling a reporter that the U.S. president was a "moron." Opposition politicians accused Chrétien of further souring his relations with Bush by being slow to accept the resignation. MEANWHILE Arachnophobia Britain's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, had a hairy problem on its hands after six women found Black Widow spiders in grapes. While the chain does allow predators...
...Fortuyn, its founder, who was murdered just nine days before elections last May, the LPF's survival was always dicey. The end came with the unseemly ministerial spat in which Heinsbroek, a flamboyant recording-industry executive who affects a chauffeured Bentley just as Fortuyn did, called Bomhoff a "moron." Bomhoff, a brittle former professor of economics, countered by calling Heinsbroek a "lunatic." They both resigned, bringing down the coalition with them. Balkenende will lead a minority government with the liberal VVD until new elections are held, most likely in January, but the work agenda over the next couple of weeks...