Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support from many liberals, blacks and others who have long disliked Rizzo because of his disdain for civil liberties and his blatant use of patronage. Ten days ago former Mayor and U.S. Senator Joseph Clark blasted Rizzo as "a rascal, a liar, a man who is ignorant, arrogant and stupid...
...daze," Vik said. The Norwegian parred the next three holes but then three putted from eight feet on the sixth for another bogey. Vik also bogeyed the ninth and eleventh holes to go five over with six holes remaining. "At that point I realized I was really playing stupid," Vik said. From that point to the 18th he was one under par but it was too late as deBettencourt won by a stroke...
...consequence of this wrangling is turmoil in the higher salary brackets. Early this month, outspoken Outfielder Reggie Jackson (TIME cover, June 3, 1974) was traded to the Baltimore Orioles by the penny-pinching owner of the Oakland A's, Charlie Finley, who argues that "too many stupid owners are willing to pay astronomical salaries." To the Orioles' dismay, Jackson, who averaged 31 homers and 91 runs batted in during his eight years with the A's, has so far refused to report to his new ball club. He says he will not come until they compensate...
...writers often go a bit too far for the network, so an NBC censor reads the script before each show. "They've been pretty reasonable," Franken said. "Sometimes they cut things for really stupid reasons, but sometimes they let things through that I can't believe." He chuckled and added, "Like Wallace wheelchair jokes...
Change is a controversial word on the 17th floor of Rockefeller Center. Chase feels that "Update" should be used sparingly and that routines should be changed. But "Lorne feels that audiences are kind of stupid," Franken said, "so he thinks we can use jokes every week. I tend to think that our audiences are more sophisticated than most. The way it is now, we'll just take a good joke and run it into the ground. If we varied by only using a good joke once every four shows, we could use it forever...