Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perimeter half a block from our hotel. The Tadzhiks are really furious and glance with undisguised hostility at Alexandra and me; a Soviet photographer suggests we acquire official military passes from the Interior Ministry, two blocks away. At the ministry there are eight Soviet correspondents. "These economic demands are stupid," says a Komsomolskaya Pravda reporter. "How can the Tadzhiks demand economic independence when they import a billion more rubles each year than they export? The religion is just a pretext. The young people pay no attention to the mullahs...
...Wizard of Oz sequence, which have literally nothing to do with each other, the plot, the Victorian era or the '70s. (My guess is that the writers associate the 1939 movie with their childhood, and so with the '70s period as a whole.) But you can't change every stupid tradition at once, and this fresh, fun production has more going for it than any Pudding show I've seen...
...offensive characters did detract from the show's overall funny tone. John Blackstone's Freida B. Youanme played on every stupid and disturbing stereotype of feminism, from gratuitous references to bra-burning to his very long underarm hair, which Tomarken brushes at one point. This is not Blackstone's fault--he gives a very strong performance--but rather a problem with the character as it is written. This is the kind of character that gives the Pudding its bad name. (Although I must admit that I was at least as upset by the audience's happy acceptance of every enraging...
...someone is intelligent and corrupt, he can easily climb to the top. This is characteristic of communism today. During the revolution, there were at least some people devoted to some aims, willing to suffer, willing to be killed. Now it is the opposite. The people at the top are stupid cowards. Primitive forms of corruption such as stealing money and sending currency abroad are not typical for Communists. For Communists, the typical corruption involves privileges like cars and apartments. What happened in East Germany is really astonishing. It was not so in Poland and Hungary...
...first few take-downs on me I was a little bit inhibited to fight it off," Jenkins said. "Because I was nervous I did some stupid things in the beginning that I shouldn't have done. Once I started getting in my double and driving, I was able to take him down...