Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past two years Rosenberger says that he has taken an interest in studying and that his grades have improved. "I used to take all guts," he said. "Now I'm taking hard courses and doing a lot better. I'm not really that stupid, although I hide it pretty well...
...Sizing up the woman's pleasant study, the man thinks, "I wouldn't like it if my wife had a room like this." Like a weary warrior goddess, Lessing views the seduction step by monstrous step. The woman gives in out of pity for the lout. "The stupid cow, the slut," he concludes...
...Board members of Gulf Oil are not stupid. They knew from the first that there would be public opposition to their economic links with the Portugese colonialists. They went ahead because, in the words of Cabinda Gulf manager Robert F. Ward, the Cabinda oil strike is "one of the major growth areas of the Corporation." The Cabinda fields are estimated to have reserves of at least 300 million tons, and they will gush at the rate of 150,000 barrels a day for forty years. And given the low labor costs if Portugese rule continues, that will...
Moreover, Winner wants the audience to believe that the children (aged about 9 and 11) regard any thing Quint says as literally true. Chil dren are often cruel but rarely that stupid. Quint lapses into a sodden, brogue-trotting Irishman, who mumbles to Miles, "If you love someone, sometimes you really want to kill them." Pow! Wilde! The governess drowns in the tarn - from an acute case of sabotaged rowboat. Quint is struck down, like St. Sebastian, by Miles' bow and arrow...
...Rade Markovic as Yanos conveys the full range of his character's emotions and turns of personality without losing sight of the fisherman's basically uncommunicative nature. Milena Dravic portrays the wife as simple and innocent of her husband's lust without allowing her to appear to be simply stupid. Her pleasure in having a companion forms a perfect counterpoint to Yanos turbulent feelings towards the intruding girl...