Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expect to be crucified for even making these observations. Tolerance apparently only extends to accepted wisdom. In the pursuit of freedom for all, we are wandering haphazardly down the path of complete repression. Only in such a miserable intellectual vacuum can we take such supreme delight in the intensely stupid antics of two poorly-drawn, obnoxious cartoon characters...
Morrison's reaction to their speeches: "I thought they all sounded stupid...
...care was important but cautioned him that the less specific he was, the better. After all, distilling his plan into 30-second commercials was nearly impossible. The Clinton priorities were aptly summed up by the sign Carville had erected in the war room. One line -- IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID -- became such a cliche that it overshadowed the other lines: CHANGE VERSUS MORE OF THE SAME. DON'T FORGET HEALTH CARE...
...wrong with the narrative idea here, and the reader should skid amiably into the underbrush of Chapter 2, as the treasure finders turn into thieves and murderers, miring themselves in treachery. But Smith has written a story in which all the characters, not excluding the first-person narrator, are stupid, mean and boring. They are jerks, irredeemable fools, and if one sat down next to you at a bar and started talking, you would pay your tab and move on. The point is not that every crime story needs a hero -- Elmore Leonard writes brilliantly and almost exclusively about career...
...incredibly insecure and very self-torturing," says Merrill Markoe, his former girlfriend, who helped create Late Night, devised such popular bits as Stupid Pet Tricks and wrote for the show until 1986. "He doesn't ever reward himself for a job well done. He always feels that he screwed up. In fact, in all the years I knew him, I never once heard him say he thought something went pretty well. The most he ever gives himself is remarks like, 'Well, I guess that stuck to the tape...