Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career as an up-and-coming member of a Chicago gang called the Vice Lords. But when his face relaxes and the baby fat sinks back in place, a different visage emerges. Disarmed of weapons and bravado, Jimmy is a terrified 16-year- old who did something very, very stupid one hot summer night this past June...
...boss Jeffrey Katzenberg has promised his new producers total artistic freedom. In Hollywood, though, where Disney is notorious for tinkering with every aspect of production, cynics wondered when the honeymoon would sour. And what films might the Merchant Ivory team make for Disney? The Importance of Being Ernest Scared Stupid? Three Men and a Portrait of a Lady? Howard the Duck...
...Pinter or Beckett. An attitude of surrealist paranoia turned out to be the right moral optic through which to see the Communist world clearly, and Havel had keen eyesight. Constricted as a playwright, he became a dissident. Imprisoned as a dissident, he became a symbol. Communism was brutal and stupid and corrupt. Havel was Czechoslovakia with brains -- the country's better self, its idealist, its moral philosopher, the visionary of "living in truth." When the Communist state fell away in November 1989, it made some giddy, noble sense to install Havel as the first President of Czechoslovakia...
...stupid architect who designed thebuilding," said student James Armstrong. "Peopledon't even talk that loud, but you can heareverything...
...welcomes the end of the Soviet state because it gave artists like him some real freedom as well as an opening to the West. "The party leadership was stupid and dull," he says. "They could come into rehearsals and enforce artistic changes. Now I decide what...