Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cartoonish drawings and whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...University of the Arts professor said shebelieved Harvard is far too insular, with itsprofessors almost completely removed from reality.In addition, she criticized the "publish orperish" attitude of the tenure system as "stupid...
...drama itself. "It's bizarre, isn't it?" asks Hepatitis in a moment of revelation. "We're characters in a play and soon we're going to see my play...which is a play within a play and they're watching us...Not only is it metaphysical, it's stupid...
Freud said that all humor is displaced anger, but that is news to Leno. "I was never angry," he says. "I could never relate to comedians like Lenny Bruce." But beneath Leno's "What, me worry?" exterior, there does lurk a subterranean anger. "It's so stupid," he says, uttering this phrase perhaps 20 times a day, pronouncing the word "stew-pid." He sees a newspaper ad describing a knife as "perfect for a night out on the town." He shakes his head. "It's so stew-pid." Small-mindedness irks him; he can tolerate anything but intolerance...
...Confusion on our side led to a lot of goals that should not have been scored," senior defender Peter Welch said. "We committed a lot of stupid penalties and made little mistakes that we have to work on clearing...