Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...children left behind are on their own. "We are without parents, without love, without anything," says Sanala Beslija, 19. "Our lives are stupid things." She fights back tears. Virtually every one of the children has been robbed or brutalized by the others in the corridors. Several of the older girls say the boys have raped them. Most have sealed their rooms to protect themselves from the others. During the day they will play together and steal together, but in the terror of the night, they often turn on each other...
...here and count the stupid hours and the days and mark them off a dumb calendar as to my last moment, my last hour, my last kiss." Roberta sits in the forest-green dining room, sipping herbal tea out of a mug decorated with little footprints, hearts and the words IT'S A GIRL. How is she holding herself together? "People can't understand," she says. "They think I'm falling to pieces nonstop in front of Jessi. But I would never do that." And then Robby DeBoer breaks down, heaving and weeping. The cries are not plaintive, not whimpers...
...flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer terminals. One message read, "It's the fish, stupid!" Another, "It's the ecosystem, stupid!" And finally, "It's all of them, stupid...
...need a book to tell you that." Not the least absurd is the idea that Said's criticism aims to downgrade the classics by unmasking some of their authors' social or political assumptions. "How can you not believe in quality? I can't stand that line, it's so stupid...
ALLEN SIGHS RESIGNEDLY when she is asked the Powell question. Yes, she will be protesting. "I'll definitely be wearing an armband and a sticker on my mortarboard," she says, adding "I think the balloon is a stupid idea. It's going to look like a party, not a protest...