Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rabin: "These Tricks Are So Stupid...
...Since then Mrs. Downer and her second husband have spent $40,000 on a futile investigative legal odyssey that finally cost them their Pacific Palisades home and landed them on welfare. Increasingly disconsolate over having allowed the court-ordered Manhattan visit, Mrs. Downer now wonders: "Why was I so stupid as to obey...
...rather, he was describing the Metropolitan Opera's first solo recital, which he was about to give at Lincoln Center. His audience: some 4,000 Met patrons plus 12 million public-television viewers. "When opera went to TV," reflected Pavarotti, "people could see it's not so stupid as they thought if it's well done. It's like antique furniture." Come again, Luciano? "You either like...
...crawls all over the band members. I think that's disgusting. They think it's in 'cause they're doing it in England. I think it's weird. I went through a stage where I was shredding all my clothes. Then I saw how phony it was, how stupid...
...prodigious leaper, I am a bird"). Lights burn late in House rooms ("Look at it this way, Silas, Louis Quinze is to Pompadour as you are to..."). Some seek recourse to the warm reassurance of love not dependant on academic achievement ("Sally, if I were stupid, would you still love me the way I love you?"). Others seek recourse to the warm reassurance of physical exhileration independent of academic achievement ("I'm not going to get out of shape this exam period. Hell, no, I unicycle to Revere Beach every morning...