Word: simpleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Representatives can do nothing more than to "try our best." Claims otherwise should raise our suspicion: either the claimant comes armed with an unyielding selfish agenda, or is a simpleton unable to see beyond his or her own lot in life. Both are self-important and have no place in public service...
...tried to explain how the fact that I had found my tube of toothpaste uncovered one morning when I know that I had covered it the night before was not trivial, but unfortunately I had only 22 minutes left, leaving me no time to argue with a simpleton...
...regarded as a giant political figure, a man who won and who retained his popularity by offering a clear ideological message, one of those rare Presidents who run for office not to be somebody but to do something. But back in 1980 he was usually portrayed as a Hollywood simpleton regurgitating lines fed him by speechwriters and media consultants...
Letterman has already complained about the movie (especially Higgins' red hair). Leno says he hasn't seen it yet, though friends have described its portrait of him. "I don't understand how such a simpleton could hold on to a major show for five years," says Leno. Still, he adds, "If I can't take it when they're making fun of me, I wouldn't be a very good sport." NBC executives have refused to comment; Letterman's camp is understandably more pleased. "It's a broad satire on the trade, and I was amused by it," says former...
...Forrest Gump," the box office Goliath in which Tom Hanks' optimistic simpleton bobs along through history, grabbed a near-record 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best actor (Hanks), best director (Robert Zemeckis) and best supporting actor (Gary Sinise). The sweep was one shy of the record: 14 for "All About Eve" in 1950. The next-closest films -- "Pulp Fiction," "Bullets Over Broadway" and "The Shawshank Redemption" -- had seven nominations apiece. The other best picture nominees were "Pulp Fiction," "The Shawshank Redemption," "The Quiz Show" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." TIME Los Angeles correspondent Jeffrey Ressner says...