Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next came "Truth or Dare." I can see how a thinking individual might be able to seem stupid in, say, an hour-long interview with Ted Koppel. Maybe you weren't prepared. But then how do you explain the movie? It was the same thing all over again: you pretending to masturbate on stage, and then being shocked and outraged when the Catholic Church dumped on you for this. We were subjected to an endless stream of banalities again: free speech, art, blah, blah, blah...
...thought I knew how to get to IHOP. "Get on Soldier's Field Road and drive, drive," a colleague said. Well the damn road forks. And I took the wrong tine. "I'm sorry I'm late. Stupid woman driver, you know?" I told my interviewee, apologizing for being 40minutes late. "I didn't say that," he said, giving me a puzzled look. Okay. Maybe he passes. It was a test of sorts for the subject of my interview: self-described anti-sexist man Jackson Katz, a former all-state football player who makes his living on the college lecture...
...message to Clinton is simple, like the placard in the conference room at his Little Rock campaign headquarters: "It's the economy, stupid...
...over again, the same message: The nation demands change, and I'm the candidate with a plan to produce it. Or, in the now famous wording of the sign that top strategist James Carville hung on the wall of headquarters to explain what the campaign is about: THE ECONOMY, STUPID...
...Pennsylvania, he might have kept many uncommitted delegates from joining Clinton, prompted some late- starting candidates to jump in, and kept alive the possibility of a brokered convention. At this point, however, Clinton proved the value of having developed and touted a comprehensive economic program. Aside from some other stupid errors, Brown pinned all his hopes on an eccentric proposal for a flat tax that even some of his supporters had trouble swallowing. Clinton trounced the Californian in New York and Pennsylvania and in effect locked up the nomination...