Word: naif
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...magazine scored some exceptional coups, like Seymour Hersh's expose of My Lai and Norman Mailer's "The Prisoner of Sex." But it also ran too many indulgently edited articles that dribbled on until reeled the mind. The author has chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted up have all the reflective force of a Liz Smith column. In one bizarre passage, Morris fantasizes about showing Elvis Presley, whom he never met but imagined as a soul brother, around...
...winner. It has him falling in love with a girl ((Robin Givens)) who rejects him, so it may have a weakness." But how weak can an Eddie Murphy movie be? Even his flops earn $60 million to $80 million. And the last time he played a romantic naif, in Coming to America, he made megamillions...
Strauss, who shares Texas ties with Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, is hardly a political naif. He understands that professional politicians are nothing if not adept readers of the public mood. He knows too that Western financiers are probably right to be wary of pouring too much money, too fast, into the Russian economy. But, like Richard Nixon, who recently criticized the Administration's "pathetically inadequate" support of Russia, Strauss also understands that leadership can help change attitudes. "It isn't that there's anything wrong with the Executive Branch or the Legislative Branch," he says...
...will have limited powers that will not impinge on the absolute authority of the monarch. According to the Saudi adviser, the Cabinet changes will not involve defense and internal security. Fahd's half brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, commands the National Guard, and his full brothers, Prince Sultan and Prince Naif, direct the Defense and Interior ministries...
...professor is no naif on the subject of civil rights and racial inequity in the U.S. Author of a 1975 work, Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, Glazer long has held that quotas are too blunt an instrument to apply to discrimination...