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Word: stupidities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little further with "Change of Mind," which features a nice guitar line to open the song, and a semi-psychedelic, echoing quality to DeLaughter's vocals. The chorus harmonies add a lilting sound to the song, which fits surprisingly well with the underlying guitar, and only the occasionally stupid lyrics ("Little Jack Horner sitting in a corner") get in the way of enjoying the song...

Author: By Diane E. Levitan, | Title: Fits The Bill | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...Butterfly" assumes throughout that the audience is particularly stupid. This is a film in which French diplomats stationed in the Far East have to inform each other, "The loss of Indochina was a great embarassment to us." Later, Song bids Gallimard fairwell at the train station as she leaves to give birth to their fictive child. She tells him, "I will return three months after the birth of our son, as is my people's custom"--a detail she presumably would have let him in on earlier. And when the words "Paris 1968" flash onscreen, the filmmakers ensure that anyone...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: M(oronic) Butterfly | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...frustrating game," senior Amy Belisle said. "We gave up too many corners and made lots of stupid errors...

Author: By Cara E. Abdulrazak, | Title: Stickwomen Can't Slip Past Huskies | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...sweeper was at the post and pushed the ball out to clear it but it went right to me," Belisle said. "It felt like I had a lot of time. I would have felt stupid if it hadn't gone...

Author: By Cara E. Abdulrazak, | Title: Stickwomen Can't Slip Past Huskies | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...months after Oliver Stone's "JFK" came out, Nick refused to sit by the windows in restaurants and even tried to avoid going outside. "What if they see us?" he would ask, and when I asked him who "they" were, he would become frantic: "Don't be so stupid!" he'd scream in reply. His fear of the woman through the fire-door seemed somehow connected to this type of exaggerated paranoia...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: There is something wrong | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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