Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard-edged action shows and, surprisingly, only two new series with blacks in the leading roles (though several from last year's bumper crop are returning). If it all sounds retrogressive and old hat, network programmers might reply by paraphrasing a line from the Clinton campaign: It's television, stupid...
...together a farcical spy tale, a post-modern identity crisis and a reading of modern Jewish life. Operation Shylock humor never fails and the narrative bursts with irony. The insistance on plot veracity might seem heavy-handed by the end, but the twists never lack ingenuity. Nothing here sounds stupid or farfetched, even though it is unlikely that any of it happened...
...advertising is stupid. There's one commercial that I keep seeing, which shows the picture of a thin, buxom woman an clad in a white swimsuit diving into a pool, superimposed on an image of Crystal Pepsi being poured. Is Pepsico trying to equate Crystal Pepsi with water? If I wanted to drink water, I would buy water, not Pepsi...
...spend my time doing nothing," she says. "Time's too valuable to waste standing on a corner, guarding turf...that's just stupid...
...combination of persistent prodding and frequent flattery or they lose their enthusiasm for action. Lacking the strong Democratic majorities in both houses that LBJ enjoyed, Clinton can't afford to offend many legislators from either party. So his partisan approach to his $16 billion budget stimulus was a stupid political move, and the Republican filibuster that killed it was a predictable slap in the face to a politician who should have known better. Similarly, Clinton should have expected Sam Nunn to turn to immature power games when the president failed to consult with him about ending the military...