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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinking particularly of the appearance on the screen of a time warp, a la The Final Countdown, and the playing, at the same time, of the theme from 2001, immediately preceding the reappearance of the dead Moritz. This is not playful--it is stupid and self-defeating. There are worse problems, though, such as the indiscriminate use of the video in the second half, which gives the production an uninteresting, gimmicky feel. As a result of all this, the pace slows to a crawl, and the production becomes like a stubborn fish on the end of your line, beating...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Unleash the Dogs of Sex | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly feminist service comedy. Imagine a cross between Gomer Pyle, USMC and An Unmarried Woman. The result is Private Benjamin, a relentlessly stupid, dismal little movie...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Mrs. Grunt | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ture Calls on All Blacks to Organize | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

...when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some things you did that were plain stupid. Thirty-five years makes a lot of changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football's Supercoach | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...amazing that the butts of all those stupid Polish jokes could make the whole world hold its breath? Some would have said that the Poles possessed suicidal courage and had no hope of succeeding. But they have succeeded by proving to men and women everywhere that no force on earth or in hell can take away a man's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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