Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meritocratic-hereditary lines (elites being formed by merit groups that had a substantial hereditary component based on transmission of both genes and favorable environment); and suppose it were also clearly demonstrated that this segmentation induced frustration and anger among the less-favored groups herded increasingly together--the poor, the stupid, [the gays] and the ugly making up a ferment of continual rejection and violence. There is at least the possibility that society will be faced with the unpleasant choice between constant insecurity for all and a crackdown involving repression of the individual liberties...
...What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel
...released three days later when Khomeini intervened. Ghotbzadeh was arrested again two weeks ago in connection with the proposed coup. Iran's top military judge, Hojjatoleslam Mohammed Reyshahri, said that 45 other conspirators had been charged. Ghotbzadeh, he said, was not the ringleader ("for he is really stupid"), but he could face execution if found guilty...
...Patriot Game is a slight mellowing--exemplified in the protagonist. Pete Riordan, a tough (natch) federal agent who's trying to figure out what's going on In Eddie Coyle and Rat on Fire, the good guys don't fight the bad guys as much as the stupid and evil guys fight the stupider and eviler Riordan, however, is a hero-- a Vietnam vet with a bum leg and cynical pride in truth, justice and the American way Heart-warming it certainly ain't in Higginsland, Bambi would wind up on a rotisserie in about two seconds. It is curious...
DURING THE HOSTAGE CRISIS, Americans described the Middle East as a barbaric area, a place where ignorant subhumans engaged in terror. Stupid Khomeini jokes abounded, later replaced by equally nonsensical remarks about Qaddafi. Little objectivity and understanding have been shed on the region by a people whose country's financial and strategic interests often outweigh local concerns of Middle Easterners. The Carter Doctrine--whose sole purpose is to protect American interests in the Middle East, with force if necessary, despite their implications--stands as a case in point. In such a climate, then, it's surprising when an American-written...