Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write an internal memo explaining to their employees exactly what Lance had done and why it was wrong, they finally gave up. Reason: they could not decide, on the basis of the facts available, whether many of Lance's freewheeling practices should be regarded as illegal, unethical, stupid-or none of these...
...obstructing the probe, Mitchell this year began serving a 2½-to eight-year term while Magruder got out of prison in January 1975 after having served seven months. Nixon professes nothing but "compassion" for Mitchell, who, he says, was "too smart to ever get involved in a stupid jackass thing like Watergate." But, alas, Mitchell "could only think of that poor Martha and that lovely child Marty, and so that's the human side of this story...
...trouble this writer has taken to reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water...
Says Johnny Rotten: "The millionaire groups were singing about love and their own hang-ups. That's stupid. You don't sing about love to people on the dole." Blithefully, whiningly, punk says anything and everything. As the Sex Pistols chant, "God save the Queen/ She ain't no human being...
...rich work extraordinarily hard. They are more willing to take risks than the average citizen. Many are loners. And, notes Journalist Arthur Louis, who has been FORTUNE'S fortune watcher for the past decade, "none of the self-made rich I've ever met seemed to be stupid and just lucky...