Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their technique has succeeded with the audience. "It's one of the most apt parodies of sitcoms. People talk about how stupid sitcoms are, but this actually does something about it," says Byard...
These people are, in a word, stupid...
...tried to explain it to people who didn't know the book. What it's like is if Philip Marlowe wasn't such a stupid lush and a romantic but got stuck in Auschwitz, maybe [Raymond] Chandler [author of the Marlowe detective novels] would have been able to write This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. In that it's kind of like writing as camera, you know--without affectation, without telling us what one feels but only what one sees and hears. And that helped me to understand something very important...
...second historical fact unearthed in these rigorous searches--"they never change"--takes a little more work. U.S. News is the most blatantly stupid: "There have been countless...dramatic changes in 50 years. [Here the changes are listed in three lines.] But the changes can only be understood when set alongside continuities that date not only from the martial Japan of a half-century ago but also from the shogunate of a century before that. America... tends to downplay such continuities. But they provide the theme for the rise of modern Japan...
PERHAPS THE REAL PROBLEM here is the print media's superior, joyfully snobbish attitude toward the television set. Walter Goodman probably thinks that he's being awfully clever in sucking some social commentary out of these proceedings, which the TV people are either too stupid or too blind to discover. He probably also believes that it is his responsibility to interpret for us the ins and outs of the trial's television coverage...