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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disgusting wife-swapping deal between Yankee Pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich [March 19]: I would like to see Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn throw these two immature clowns out of the major leagues, not so much for what they did but for being stupid enough to let the whole country know about it. Baseball is not only our most popular sport, but it has always been our cleanest, physically and morally. These men have done a disservice to baseball and the kids who love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1973 | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...stupid pretensions, Altman thus stays in the mind as an unfinished, unruly, but alive and experimenting talent. But until such camera-happy folk start flashing signals of full human relationships, (some of which I thought I caught in McCabe and Mrs. MiHer), my heart will belong to the Chandlers...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Kissing Off Chandler | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...before him On my knees And he kisses me. He assumes I'll lose my reason, And I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Precious Fancy | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...defiant spirit of Letty the Bag Lady, who carried all her possessions everywhere in two sacks, terrified that they might otherwise be stolen. Letty knew that "this face of mine pulls and tugs in all different directions like an old sweater sagging." But she scoffed at those who stared. "Stupid bastards, I say, someday you'll be old and ugly and hungry -all of you with your wrinkle cremes and diet soda and wigs and paint. Dead before you live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Shadows | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

...efforts to become a writer as a farce of indecision. But, he adds, "I am my father. Before I met Don Juan I would spend years sharpening my pen cils, and then getting a headache every time I sat down to write. Don Juan taught me that's stupid. If you want to do something, do it impeccably, and that's all that matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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