Word: stupidest
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...Florentin. Ironically enough, it was De Gaulle who set the rules for France's first direct presidential election since 1848-and it was he who was ambushed by them. "The stupidest thing of my life," he reportedly muttered afterward. The rule of 50% -or-a-runoff gave everybody, including Gaullist voters, a free and harmless chance to dissent. They could demonstrate distaste for his haughty ways and still set things straight at the runoff. It was a free swing at the genera], and swing they...
...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. "If he were my Secretary of Defense," said Goldwater, "he'd be back making Edsels for Ford the next day." Barry inaccurately quoted McNamara as saying that long-range missiles are more reliable than manned bombers. That statement, said Goldwater, is "probably the stupidest ever made by a Secretary of Defense." Goldwater also got into an argument with one of his most vociferous backers, William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, over-of all people-Jimmy Hoffa. Goldwater had accused Rockefeller of "not telling the truth" about Barry's philosophies, charged that Hoffa...
...deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack he had made in Mu nich earlier: "Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher...
...Police Officers) Gang. In one week alone they pluck six plums off Sellers' thumb, and by week's end the poor punk is driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...
Richard Lowenthal, who plays Tony Lumpkin, Mrs. Hardcastle's ne'er-do-well son by a previous marriage, has a riot of a face, and the stupidest-sounding bluff giggle I've ever heard; but he screams his lines, some of them as crucial to the plot as any lines can be to such a plot, and they are lost. Tony's fond mother is not a very interesting or amusing person, so anything Janet Leslie gets out of the part--and she gets quite a bit--is a testament to her skill...