Word: naivet
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...horde swarmed over frozen corn fields in search of natives, and otherwise entertained the Iowans with their big-city naiveté. A television news producer in Dallas called the Des Moines Register and asked, "Where do we find the pigs and corn? And can we cab there?" One reporter asked the state Democratic committee to help him find a caucus held in a small town fire station with a potbelly stove and a Dalmatian. "We said we could get him a fire station in a small town," said Sarah Herold, the party's press liaison, "but he would have...
...paid the price for my naiveté. The quotes ascribed to me, statements of marginal taste gathered together in what she presented as a conversation, were the most self-serving utterances of my entire public career. What drove Nixon up the wall was a quotation Fallaci put in my mo.uth: "Americans like the cowboy . . . who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else . . . This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique." I do not believe that I said...
...Rudolf Nureyev for Rudolph Valentino was canny in conception-both men display an animal magnetism that audiences have found irresistible. But Rudy I had a very different appeal from Rudy II; the Valentino swagger was manifestly a device to hide his vulnerability and naiveté. Nureyev is an athlete, a sophisticated stage performer bewildered only by the demands of the camera, of the English language and of the director. Russell, who might have used Valentino's short, unhappy life as a device for social and dramatic purposes ends by distorting the man and the epoch. What emerges beneath...
...small-time Italian businessman named Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston). On the run from a mobster brother-in-law, Gaetano lies low in what he considers a suitably obscure hideout. The place even has a reassuringly classy name-the Ritz. Gaetano is from Cleveland, so he can be forgiven his naiveté about the Manhattan demimonde. He suspects all is not well, however, when the Ritz turns out to be an elaborate bathhouse patronized exclusively by males. His darkest fears are confirmed when some of the patrons start winking at him, and one, Claude Perkins, launches repeated attacks from behind doorways...
...permits any citizen to spend as much money as he wishes to promote a candidacy-provided there is no collusion between contributor and candidate. Thus far no one has dared to take significant advantage of the provision-or the electorate's naivet...