Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with hyena cackle, whooping and snorting, tells someone. The sense of the Ik within American society, an uncaring, a messy, stupid license gone out of control, gives some plausibility to Republican rhetoric on the subject...
...nothumming that song because you like it!" she would cry in disbelief. "You're just doing it to be stupid and annoying...
...words are stupid--it's obvious they were written by people with only the slightest clue about English (example: "It was like shooting a sitting duck/a little talk and a smile and baby I was stuck"). But forget them-Bell does. The high point of the album comes on "Take A Chance on Me," where he leaves the lyrics behind and babbles a blissful "ba ba ba ba." And the concept is hilarious: Erasure is just a latter-day incarnation of ABBA, after all--they're both gooey, disco-ey, selfparodying pop groups. Thus this album is self-parody...
...Bush greatly increased taxes in order to reduce the deficit, a move which not only increased the deficit but was a form of governmental tinkering with the economy usually practiced by what Bush calls "tax-and-spend liberals." Plus it made Mr. Read-my-lips look mighty stupid...
Movies can convince us of the impossible; they have trouble with what Hitchcock called "the implausibles." Both Single White Female and Raising Cain too often beg the question "Why would such a smart person do such a stupid thing?" Single White Female gets its best thrills early on, when Hedy is falling in love with Allie -- and filling the void inside both of them. Sisterhood never looked so vulnerable. "You haven't been yourself," Allie says to Hedy. "I know," her would-be twin replies. "I've been...