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Word: stupidly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does the committee really expect MIT to incur a $32,000 cost to help Harvard spinelessly attempt to uphold a principle which MIT doesn't even accept? If so, the committee members are decidedly stupid. Or does the committee expect MIT to reject the College's ROTC students, thereby effectively ending the ROTC program at Harvard? If so, the committee members are cynical and devious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Even Close | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

...first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Groping for Luna2 | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...they stir of movie glories past, when sweeping historical spectacle was a cinematic commonplace. Then again, it may simply be the crazy nerve of this project that disarms one's critical faculties: the French and Indian Wars; a protagonist named Hawkeye; a red-coated English army marching in straight stupid lines through the forest; wily Indian enemies skittering through the underbrush, a menace not only to the soldiery but to virtuous femininity as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return to A Lost World | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...panicked for a second time; I know my I.D. number and my PAC code, but not my plate number. I suddenly saw the value of personalized license plates. "IM STUPID" would be perfect...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: A Liberal Education | 9/26/1992 | See Source »

...some ways his most extreme work comes from this aberrant moment of peinture vache (stupid painting), as he called it -- it's as though, in parodying other Belgian artists (Ensor, and a particularly gross comic illustrator named Deladoes), he touched a demotic rock bottom from which he could only recoil in the end. But Georgette hated the new style, and by 1950 Rene was back to the old one, often repainting versions of images he had first made in the '30s. This recycling fitted his own idea of himself as a craftsman rather than an artist. You could make more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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