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...doesn't check the accuracy of her items? So what if in her column she dispenses advice to Ivana and can't keep straight if she is friend or journalist? So what if Suzy claims to have attended a party when she did not? So what if in the nitwit pantheon of gossip Claus Von Bulow, Sydney Biddle Barrows and Jessica Hahn are celebrated in the same tones as people of genuine accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: And What About the Truth? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...speech, which The Daily Pennsylvanian called loosely structured, Leary described television evangelist and Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson as a "nitwit" through whom his congregation had psychedelic experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...abolished. "The New and Improved, Totally Without Ill-will Tribunal" (NITWIT) is established in its place. Despite student criticism, the new body will employ the same procedures as the CRR. Explains Dean L. Fred "Solomon" Jewett '57: "The procedures aren't written down anywhere, so how do students know they aren't any good? Besides, I'll decide the procedures as soon as we need them so I'm sure they'll be fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...first series of cases before the new disciplinary body, NITWIT, several new punishments are revealed. Two students are ordered to take Organic Chemistry, three are exiled to North House and the five charged with the most serious infractions are suspended until they can invent a plausible explanation for the $25,000 price tag of the guardhouse at Johnston Gate before they will be readmitted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...Trek went off the air in 1969, they have devoted themselves with canonical fervor to annotating and explicating the 79 episodes. To Trekkies it matters not that the show was bad science and worse fiction, or that its actors, outfitted in futuristic Dr. Dentons, read their portentous lines with nitwit solemnity. The show's only soaring spin-off was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), in which the cast took a back seat to a splendid special-effects light show that made an eloquent case for the fusion of art and technology, man and machine. Trekkies, of course, consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sea Shepherd From Outer Space | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

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