Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brand-new, big-budget, TV-derived summer movies will do you any harm, and one actually succeeds pretty well. The best (and worst) you can say about Maverick is that it does the job -- it allows you to spend a perfectly agreeable evening without making you feel completely stupid or totally conned. The film offers us Mel Gibson as a new Bret Maverick, the Western gambler, as well as the old TV Maverick, James Garner, now playing a wry frontier sheriff. These two guys can make you smile contentedly even when the script is wandering and they're just sort...
...companies. A loophole in the sanctions allows foreign companies to set up deals with Iraq that will take effect once the U.N. embargo is lifted. The French, Italians, Russians and Turks have interpreted this to mean they can enter contractual relationships; the U.S. has not. "It would be stupid for us to be the last ones in, when everyone else is lining up to sign contracts for Iraq's reconstruction," says General Jeannou Lacaze, retired chief of staff of the French armed forces...
...these Bostonians claim that a standing "O" would never have been given to a Celtic who did that and that the citizens of Chicago are stupid...
Lauda gives the FIA the benefit of the doubt. Drivers, he explains, "see accidents happen but nobody getting hurt, and they stop thinking about what is really at risk. If we start believing that motor racing is not dangerous, then we are all stupid. It's almost as though God has held his hand over Formula One. At Imola, he took it away. And we saw again the brutal reality of what Formula One racing is all about...
...level to his criticism which is that it's the Thing to do. David Letterman goes to CBS, and his show is big, and so NBC is portrayed in the press as the people who let him go, therefore any decision they make is going to be stupid. I think there are some critics that look at this show as 'It's the show that's not David Letterman.' My feeling is I'm not going to do his show. I'm not going to do anything like his show. I'm a different person I'm not going...