Word: ridiculouse
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After reading the letter from Canadian Peter T. Lochtie commenting that baseball was invented, watched and played by morons [LETTERS, Aug. 17], I had to respond. Mr. Lochtie, would you prefer for us to watch the "sport" of curling? Or maybe hockey--where all but the few truly terrible teams...
Of course, the man at the top should be a model citizen. But one must not go too far in judging a public man by his private life. Besides the risk of mak-ing ourselves ridiculous in giving too much importance to a commonplace matter, there is the terrible danger...
Enjoy "The Manchurian Candidate"? So did Mossad, it seems -- too much, if a report in an Israeli newspaper is to be believed. Ha'aretz, normally a sedate read, went wild Wednesday with claims that the Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting...
The Emperor's new clothes were on display in Paris last week. But although none of the attendees of the fall couture shows were prepared to say the outfits were ridiculous--as usual--some were prepared to say the women were nearly naked. Nipples were one of the biggest accessories...
And for that reason alone it makes sense that Parker Bowles should involve herself in the lives of the young princes. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage: "The situation has been ridiculous. Camilla and her ex-husband are courtiers and socially part of the royal circles...