Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when told that court costs would be paid out of public funds: "The taxpayer has just contributed ?20,000 to the promotion of a soft-porn book because of our stupid obscenity laws...
...Baseball Players' Negotiator Marvin Miller, plus readings from classic texts like Cosell's own autobiography, Cosell. "I was amazed that he really does talk like that," allowed Sophomore Andy Durham after two hours of Howard's portentous delivery. "He insulted students when they said something stupid-the same way he does...
...depressing. Drawing the characters in the series not from the middle-class world where most soap opera people live but from the blue-collar class where most of their viewers reside seems, like so many Norman Lear notions, condescending rather than clever. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is silly stupid, silly stupid...
...believe it. The money's no good, so if they don't like it, why aren't they out doing something else? Take me--I'm the lowest-paid guy in Bristol, and I know I could get more, but I'm too stupid even to ask for a raise. They mail you their offer, and even though most of the guys hold out for a while, I always send mine back right away. You don't want to hold on to it too long, because you don't want to be labelled a troublemaker, an 'attitude problem...
...fact that he's aware of his own ludicrousness doesn't prevent Allan from doing stupid, inappropriate things. In trying to impress a blind date, he anoints himself profusely with Mennen Spray Deodorant, Lavoris, Johnson and Johnson Baby Powder, Canoe and Binaca--leaves Thelonius Monk and Bartok albums strewn "carelessly" about and waxes philosophically ("Pain...it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.") He knows what he's doing, and yet somehow can't restrain himself...