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Word: stupid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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They snap at stupid questions: "What's our message?" responds Cheech to one serious newsman. "The message is that there is no message. That generation has grown up. There's even less no message for them...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

...instinctive urge on the Sunset Strip and in beautiful downtown Burbank to dredge up old films. Although Dino DeLaurentis reigns as the King Kong of this burgeoning market, almost everybody has tried his hand at it. The products range from ridiculous but harmless--Heaven Can Wait--to dramatic yet stupid--Invasion of the Body Snatchers--to just plain banal--The Blue Lagoon...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beneath the Planet of the 747s | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

...quot;Just now she is describing a ghastly scene, the desolate interior landscape of the becalmed writer. This bedeviled soul feels stupid, worthless, paralyzed; he is in a state of panic and isolation; he feels a terrible sense of impending disaster. "And in this situation the Critic is remorseless." That is Kuriloffs central perception: most people who write anything at all must deal, sooner or later, with a hostile, censorious inner voice. It will say, for example, "You must finish, and you don't have enough time." Or "You can't do it, you're no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Confronting the Empty Page | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...temptation in describing a film like this one is to string together several adjectives-witless, ugly, brutal, insensate, stupid. But one word will serve to cover its multitude of sins: The Island is simply vile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep-Sixed | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

While Olsen says his calculations tend to agree with the results of Duncan's study, Duncan says, "I didn't think the figures he showed me had any more meaning than the study I had done. And I just told you the report I did was stupid." Duncan refuses to release any results of his tests, but he adds that, while the winter may be the most obvious place to save energy, it may not always be the best...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Calendar Reform Waltz | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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