Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turtel brought home $50 and a contest record from the event, which be called an "intellectual challenge "Strategy is vital to the successful pizza muncher, he claimed "There's no place there for stupid eaters...
...movie, must have learned the same rule. Cannery Row looks very pretty, but it moves about as fast as continental drift, and it's a lot less fun to watch. When, after two excruciatingly boring hours, it finally grinds to its inevitable happy ending, we too are left feeling stupid but unruffled. A movie has drifted in and out of our heads, and all that's left is a vague taste of crab...
...Luojin, a Peking writer, was mortified by her second husband Cai Zhongpei. In fact, she was sure she had married a bumpkin. He never seemed to talk about aesthetics and the finer things of life, only stupid topics like the price of yellowfish. He flailed and hooted like a child while watching soccer games, and when she hauled him to the theater for some cultural uplift, he laughed when he should have cried. One day Yu tried to coax him into reading a book. He snapped: "I've been selected a model worker every year without reading books...
...Burma men clearly enjoy playing to a friskier audience--even if these fans have to clear out of the club by 5 p.m. There's lot more sneering and growling on stage than at Jasper's--still posing, but with slightly more abandon. "Fame and fortune is a stupid game, I play," Miller bellows at the crowd...
...confused and essentially stupid doctrine. W.H. Auden's memorable lines about W.B. Yeats describe a sweet metaphysical arc: "Time that is intolerant/ Of the brave and innocent/ And indifferent in a week/ To a beautiful physique/ Worships language and forgives/ Everyone by whom it lives." Yes: time grants pardon. But the law is not in the trade of metaphysics; the law's only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary...