Word: sham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...print this," says Jesse Ventura, eating a banana and a granola bar. He's still miffed about that damn Playboy interview, the one that sent his polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism...
...nerdy glasses adorning his pinched face, Damon could more easily be mistaken for the creepy losers Hoffman usually plays (in Boogie Nights or Happiness) than for a patrician hunk like Dickie. The deglamorizing of Ripley pays off beautifully in his final meeting with Freddie, who sees through Tom's sham, quickly spotting the poseur's lapses of taste and showing a delicious upper-class contempt for a real nobody trying to be a fake somebody...
Musharraf: I would like to move toward the substance of democracy and away from the sham democracy we have had. I want a true democracy at the grass-roots level in which people can govern themselves and run their own health programs and road construction. Members of the National Assembly were doling out uncontrolled funds and controlling people's destinies at their whims. I'll change that...
POLITICAL ALLIES: Donald Trump ENEMIES: Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan RECENT OUTBURST: On organized religion: "It's a sham and a crutch...
...breasts, breasts, breasts, Sophia Loren's and his wife's, and how he'd like to be reincarnated as a 38-double-D bra, and he implies that groping women, Tailhook-style, is a prerogative of the warrior and says, in perfectly plain English, "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers." So much for St. Thomas and Martin Luther...