Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replaced Ted Williams. And since '67 he has flirted with the hopes of the people dangerously: when he fails to come through, the fans reserve their most exquisite fury. When he doesn't hustle to first they razz him. When he applies his talent for appallingly stupid base-running ran all-star from the neck down. white Sox manager Eddie Stanky once said) or fields half-heatedly at first base, his new stable in the field (left field, his time-honored turf in the past, is traversed by friskeir souls now) the hoots and curses come showering down...
Premier Kim Chong Pil defends these tough measures: "Our cardinal problem is survival. Freedom to the point of license hurts us. The critics who talk about the lack of freedom here would be the same ones who, if we were overrun, would say: 'Those stupid Koreans, they couldn't prepare themselves to stand up against the North.' " In an important but limited sense, the Premier is correct. Seoul's most important weapon against the North is the passionate anti-Communism that unites South Korea's 33.5 million people. But there is probably a limit...
...least 2 million Americans are now aware of the Ministry of Silly Walks. College students are finding new meanings for the word stupid, and old ladies may even be getting ideas about beating up kids. What is this pernicious influence, bordering on a cult, that is now sweeping the U.S.? The word is Monty Python. Five roopy young Englishmen, who methodically take the world apart each week in a series of sketches mysteriously called Monty Python 's Flying Circus, have conquered the U.S. air waves. The Pythons are getting the kind of following that a presidential candidate might envy...
...were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They soon enlisted a new recruit, Minnesota-born Terry Gilliam, whose animated graphics are a favorite device for closing a sketch. "We worked intuitively," explains Cleese of those early days. "We went looking for stupid things. We just wanted to pick a few flowers...
THERE ARE a few funny reversals of cliches about medieval movies, but these fall into two categories: the "it must have looked funny on the drawing board because it sure doesn't look funny on the screen"; and the simply stupid. In the latter category, the knights build a sort of Trojan Horse to enter a castle and then forget to hide themselves within it. In the former, the defenders of a castle attack the approaching army not with boiling oil or arrows, but with large, living animals like sheep and cows. Even the jokes that are somewhat amusing...