Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what's all over the sports page? Stupid question, considering that all those wonderfully exciting winter sports like hockey and basketball and, until recently, football are now in bloom...
...REAGAN loses his reelection bid, it should in part be because millions of Americans, regardless of ideology or party, are embarrassed that their leader is so consistently stupid, misinformed, or dishonest. The library will be built in 1985, and in front will be a statue of Abraham Lincoln engraved with the first Republican President's pertinent insight: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." If, as most pundits predict, Reagan does win four more...
...occasional attacks by violent punks. "You walk the streets out of loneliness," says Salvation Army Sociologist Ronald Vander Kooi, "and you start talking to yourself." Joseph Hanshaw, 19, has kept his bearings so far. Last spring he was kicked out of a Job Corps camp for selling marijuana. "Stupid," he admits. "I blew it." He has spent most of 1983 sleeping where he could around Manhattan. A job has eluded him, but, he says, "I'm trying to prove that I can make it on my own." Indeed, he would rather bunk down in a concrete corner...
...joys of joining the great chain of being. It could have been bathetic. It could have been pretentious. It could have been desperate. But like much else in an entrancing entertainment show that only looks small and simple, it succeeds in making you feel good without making you feel stupid. That is a rare quality in an up number. It is an even rarer quality in the musical theater of the moment. -By Richard Schickel
...says that for all the people who do seek counseling, there are more who are reluctant to ask for help "I wish people wouldn't guess so much about birth control issues. There's never been a stupid question It's hard not to pick up the phone...