Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to take Math at Harvard, but had to give it up. It wasn't that I was too stupid to do well--although some might say that this was a contributing factor--but that whenever I got a problem right I became too happy to continue: "What? Radical two over three? Well, all right! Celebrate good times, come on! I'm outta here! Is 'Alf' on tonight...
Players who return while the strike is in progress "would be selling out and I don't think they could look at themselves in the mirror," Baty said. "It would be stupid for anybody to do that. It would ruin their relationship with the rest of the players...
...said [to Patterson], 'What did you say thatfor?' and he said, `I can't believe I said that.It was so totally stupid,'" according to thestudent involved in breaking the window...
...Overwrought Press Conference. With a rambling and disjointed opening statement, Biden failed to reap the benefits of public confession, even though he called himself "stupid" and his actions "a mistake." Part of the problem is that he contradicted himself by also insisting that it was "ludicrous" to attribute every political idea...
...lacked in its 1986 Broadway reprise, real heart. Whereas Debbie Allen seemed too tough, too much a survivor to elicit audience sympathy when she played Charity on Broadway, the road show's Donna McKechnie -- the original Cassie in A Chorus & Line -- manages to be forever vulnerable without seeming stupid. As the buttoned-down businessman who takes up with her, says he can forgive her slightly checkered past and then finds he cannot, Ken Land is more likable and believable than his Broadway counterpart. As a result, what is virtually an identical show plays louder, faster and funnier -- to cite Centenarian...