Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURING the 1986 campaign, Joe Kennedy was the Dan Quayle of the race--young, inexperienced, thin-skinned and, by most accounts, stupid. Yet Kennedy's charisma--added to enormous financial resources, instantaneous name recognition, and a superb campaign organization--contributed to his victory over a crowded field of candidates...
Scott has problems both in the station and on the streets. One of his superior officers has called him a "stupid nigger" in front of fellow officers. On one occasion the officer asked someone he was arresting, "Do you want this nigger to see you crying?" Sometimes citizens who call for help will rebuff Scott and ask for a white officer -- a request the department denies...
Bill Spadea, a senior at Boston University, told the crowd, "Start chanting, 'Willie Horton.' It'll look good--Channel Four is there." Another organizer said, "We have to wait a few minutes to get an American flag--we'll look stupid without...
...floor price for agricultural commodities does, in fact, encourage surplus production. But that surplus would disappear if there were a sufficient market for those product. It would be stupid to discourage production now, since the drought has reduced agricultural production below domestic demand for the first time in 16 years...
...castigating his whole family about the need for secrecy, yet in one scene he gets drunk, comes home, and shrieks out a confession to the neighborhood at the top of his lungs. It is one of the first moments where the movie goes definitively from implausible to just plain stupid...